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...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
.... No military bases or weapons of mass destruction shall be put into orbit or anywhere beyond Earth So far the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has adopted Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines as the first ...
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...
12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
...things, may help prepare better answers to the future governance of outer space – a topic of major concern to the United Nations. The exciting aspect of this initiative is its three phase approach to providing broader access to space; promoting peace...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... Space Treaty), adopted on 19 December 1966 and entered into force on 10 October 1967, Resolution 2222(XXI) of the United Nations General Assembly, Annex, International Legal Materials 1967, Vol. 6, 386-390. 2 The term Kessler Syndrome, named...
