October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...consequences for resource utilisation. Under the United Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations cannot acquire land on celestial bodies.... exploitation of space to be registered from their nation. Arguments over who can export and sell commodities...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... underestimates the importance of space to the survival of humanity as a whole. Indeed, at the Legal Sub-Committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (where I have had the honour of being part of the Australian...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
..., Astroscale is closely involved in various formal and ad-hoc industry groups as well as international organisations including: United Nations (UN) – Astroscale’s CEO addressed UNISPACE-50 attendees in Vienna, Austria, in June 2018, the first time...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... Panel on Planetary Protection, and is in the Policy and Legal Affairs Section, Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations, Vienna, Austria The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of the respective entities...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
...of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL). From 2014 to 2016, he served as Chair of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS). Kai-Uwe Schrogl holds a doctorate degree in political...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... of new initiatives to define and assess sustainable satellite operations. After nearly a decade of intergovernmental negotiations, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) adopted the Guidelines for the Long-term...
