June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... on a regional, or greater, scale. Today, there are 95 national members of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). Although significant progress was made via the Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... of public health. Even so, in 1959, the predecessor of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) highlighted concerns of “biological, chemical, and radiation contamination”, the endangering of possible living organisms, and the...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
..., when the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) first considered space debris as a priority item. In 1999, the Subcommittee adopted the Technical Report on Space Debris...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
... with 24 members and now consists of 102 members, one of the largest committees of the UN. Regulating debris removal UNCOPUOS has done a lot of work on many issues of space management, but it does not have the authority to make...
25 September 2025
Lunar Commerce – A Primer
... Moon Village Association, an NGO with permanent observer status at the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). You get a feel for the ‘reason to publish’ at the end of chapter 2, which says: “Feel free to join...
