November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... changes in our use of the airspace and near space environments and time is now pressing for the UNOOSA International Committee on GNSS and ICAO to come together to achieve compatibility between ATM and STM through the...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... been seen to cause increased cases of RFI and a consequent degradation of service quality. At the beginning of 2019, the UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) Index had just short of 5000 operational satellites listed...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... Space (COPUOS) coordinates these treaties and other questions of space jurisdiction from the UN Office of Outer Space (UNOOSA) based in Geneva, Switzerland. OST is the main treaty ratified by 111 countries and to date it forms the basis...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
...she is conducting the first archaeological study of the International Space Station. She is also a mentor in the UNOOSA Space4Women programme and a member of the Advisory Council of the Space Industry Association of Australia. Thomas Gooch is Founder...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... of the major players. But what we’ve found in working with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is that there’s a lot of global interest beyond this. In fact, we’ve had interest from 75 different countries around the...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... exist. Examples are the IADC ‘Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines’, issued in 2002 and a basis for the UNOOSA ‘Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space’, and the recently adopted...
