August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... hazards arising from debris. The body responsible for the development of space law on an international level is the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). In order to establish the content of the LTSG, in 2010 the...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... Age, in 1957, when it established a Minitrack station to follow the American Vanguard satellite, and in 1958 co-founded the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space (COPUOS). Iran’s space stand at the Kish Airshow in the Persian...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
...argue that such far-reaching principles should have been developed in a multilateral forum through the United Nations or other international organisations, not bilaterally via government-to-government agreements. But, Bridenstine told reporters, that...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... rays streaming into space at the speed of light United Nations (UN) action to create the International Asteroid Warning Network... This, however, might be followed by the United Nations Security Council considering a more specific international treaty ...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...) for two years. David Kendall, director general of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPOUS), believes there would be great interest if NASA were to invite...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... aviation sectors, including at the international level through the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is also advisable. Through this relationship, there are already key...
