September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
.... International guidelines The topic of space sustainability has been addressed by the United Nations in a holistic manner since 2010. In 2019, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) adopted a set of 21 consensus...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... policy experts in Washington DC, discussing the next steps for Asgardia on its journey towards a full member of the United Nations (UN). Asgardia’s first parliamentary elections are being held in the first quarter of 2018 and, for the first...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... launches underline the importance of transparency in Earth orbit activities and the mistrust that a lack of it creates. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), which discharges the duty of the Secretary-General of the...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
...and Legal Subcommittees of UNOOSA, and has resulted in the so-called Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 62/217 back in December 2007. Sentinel-1A’s solar array before and after the impact...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... civil protection, rescue or security organisation – but to ensure timely action, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNOSAT) are also authorised to activate the...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
.... Since then two other UNISPACE conferences have taken place in Vienna - in 1982 and 1999 - and the United Nation’s Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) is now organising the fourth such conference, UNISPACE+50. Previous UNISPACE...
