March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... a Safer World was espoused. In 2006, the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency... Response (UN-SPIDER) was established under the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). This ...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
..., the mission responds to the pressing need for biomass observations in support of global treaties such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change initiative for the Reduction of Emissions due to Deforestation and Forest Degradation...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... asteroid or comet strike could create havoc and ruin, on perhaps a planetary scale. After decades of urging, the United Nations has created an International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and even a Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... that the field of ethics and ethical considerations in space has been dealt with extensively by international bodies (e.g. United Nations, European Union, the Committee on Space Research), all of which were assisted by academic institutions in their...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... frameworks, managing hijacking and criminality and responsibility for passenger safety. A specialised agency of the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), exists to manage the orderly development of international air...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... and Interagency Relations Mike Gold highlighted the UAE’s “extremely forward-leaning” policies and participation on the United Nations’ Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Regulations enabling a potential spaceport have Virgin Galactic...
