April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... analysis techniques to advance space surveillance. He joined Boeing Research & Technology in New Mexico in 2015. References 1 UNCOPUOS, Active Debris Removal - An Essential Mechanism for Ensuring the Safety and Sustainability of Outer Space, UN Doc...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... most important of such institutions is the UN (United Nations), particularly its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). When the Space Age began in 1957 at the height of the Cold War, both the Soviet Union...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... shared profit, this will be a deterrent to new types of space business. Some activities now underway - such as the UNCOPUOS Working Group on the Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities as well as the InterAgency Space Debris Coordination...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
International mechanisms and institutions governing space activities have not been evolving and adjusting as quickly as the actors and their activities conducted in the global space sector. Although the current legal regime and related system of ...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... for the SGAC’s Space Law and Policy Project Group. He has represented SGAC at several sessions of the UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee. He is also undertaking a PhD in space law at the University of Sunderland. Kathryn Robison is a PhD Candidate in the...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... are in the aviation and pharmaceutical industry. The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) will take time to ratify a robust lunar treaty. However, when exploration receives the impetus of the proposed...
