... non-binding Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines [3] of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) focus unvaryingly on the non-functional nature of debris: space debris are all man-made objects, including...
... (CSA), was appointed in June 2016 to chair the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) for two years. David Kendall, director general of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and chairman of the...
... of Space Explorers, the B612 Foundation, NASA’s JPL cosmic hazards programmes, ESA’s Earthguard programme, the UN COPUOS Working Group on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities, the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), ...
... are expanding. Top: In 1959, the General Assembly established the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) as a permanent body, which had 24 members at the time. It has now grown to 84 members. Non-appropriation of outer space...
... for a Moon landing. The group is seeking observer status at the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS). They will be aiming to build on the protocols suggested in the July 2011 NASA/NASM document seeking international...
...Luxembourg. These provisions evoked numerous discussions in the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) and while quite a number of representatives did not consider such activities as being in conflict with applicable...