15 May 2024
Lisbon summit calls for urgent action on space threats
... becomes increasingly complex, we realise the importance of the United Nations and of UNOOSA in particular. Our ability to lead ... we are again in this historic city, but now as the United Nations Member States, and I hope that we are also here with ...
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 ...
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...
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...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...out the foundations of international space law by the United Nations. The space law pioneer was the first chairman... sectoral programme financed from a special separate fund of the national budget, allocated directly to the Polish Space Agency (POLSA),...
