July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... agree a series of guidelines to ensure the long-term sustainability of outer space activities was discussed by the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) between 2011 and 2018. Under the able chairmanship of South Africa’s Peter...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...policymakers as they shape US space policy. Gabriel Swiney is the head of the US Delegation to the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS). He is one of the authors of the Artemis Accords and...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... a scientifically justified framework for planetary protection. Indeed, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) noted, in its report in 2017, the long-standing role of COSPAR in maintaining a Planetary Protection...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... by any major space-faring nation. Currently the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) coordinates these treaties and other questions of space jurisdiction from the UN Office of Outer Space (UNOOSA) based in Geneva...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... innovative and effective approaches to capacity-building, as mandated by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). By developing and implementing a research project for the United Nations Dream Chaser mission, countries can also...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... some hope for a way forward to the view expressed in 2017 during the fifty-sixth session of the Legal Subcommittee (LSC) of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) that the LSC consider under the agenda item concerning debris...
