October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... safety, ocean pollution and atmospheric emissions. UNOOSA is leading efforts to implement its 21 Long-Term Sustainability Guidelines [see box] and improve compliance with the UN Registration Convention, which currently accounts for just 88.5 percent...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...-based astronomy, or the sustainability of the night sky. However, UN COPUOS has recently adopted Long-Term Sustainability (LTS) guidelines on the use of outer space that provide guidance on the sustainability of human usage of space. There may well...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
...consensus on the importance of space sustainability, if not measurable standards for sustainable operations. Picking up where the UN LTS Guidelines leave off, the Space Safety Coalition was formed in September 2019, with a diverse membership spanning...
