September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... long-term sustainability of outer space activities as adopted by the UN Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in 2019. Activities, where potential harmful interference could occur, should be restricted to pre-identified ‘Safety Zones...
18 October 2015
ROOM at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Israel
... ROOM editor-in-chief Igor Ashurbeyli, retired cosmonaut and former Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of UN COPUOS Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Director of the Harwell Oxford Space Cluster Barbara Ghinelli, Head of ESA’s Technology...
15 May 2024
Lisbon summit calls for urgent action on space threats
... the importance of the United Nations and of UNOOSA in particular. Our ability to lead by convening in and around COPUOS (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space) is a crucial platform to advance these discussions. “It is the UN's consensus...
21 June 2016
China Looks for Space Station Collaboration through the U.N.
... said in a June 16 statement. The agreements are dated March 31 but apparently were not announced until Wu’s speech to COPUOS. Wu also mentioned the already existing agreements with ESA and Roscosmos, and ESA officials have mentioned...
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
... the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). "This unique effort is a global-first in endorsing the current...
