March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
...regulatory regime of the long-term sustainability in space. At present further work is ongoing under the auspices of the UN COPUOS within the framework of a dedicated Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities, whose main...
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?
...the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) that the LSC consider under the agenda item concerning debris ... expert attached to the Belgian delegation to the UN COPUOS, he has attended negotiations on the Draft Guidelines on...
November 2018
Pole star rising
.... The space law pioneer was the first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee of UNOOSA and his words on space discoveries have...for?” Prof Manfred Lachs, the first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee of UNOOSA Mars explorers The weak factor ...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... public information regarding location and the general nature of operations, and complying with guidelines laid out by UN-COPUOS on space debris. The Accords seeks to protect historical locations like the Apollo landing sites. In parallel, a concept...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has had the air-space boundary issue as a ...who shall be classed as such. Almost certainly, the members of UN COPUOS negotiating the main points of the Treaty will have had no thought that...
