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...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... civilisation. For 30 years, my compatriots and I in the United States have been leading a space revolution, and at last, ... are the policy makers, legal and academic communities, national and international regulatory bodies. Already I see an evolution...
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...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... international community over the past half-century. The United Nations (UN) has continuously emphasised that the benefits tied to... Treaty, which has governed the conduct and activities of United Nations member states in space over the past 53 years. ...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... actions involving international cooperation through bodies such as the United Nations Committee On the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN... in this orbital regime. The space-faring nations whose actions contributed to the current situation will...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
...extensive discussions among international bodies, such as the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and ...in inverse proportion to the number density of objects per unit volume, the collisional cross-sectional area and the relative ...
