August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... are expanding. Top: In 1959, the General Assembly established the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) as a permanent body, which had 24 members at the time. It has now grown to 84 members. Non-appropriation of outer space...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... for a Moon landing. The group is seeking observer status at the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS). They will be aiming to build on the protocols suggested in the July 2011 NASA/NASM document seeking international...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
...Luxembourg. These provisions evoked numerous discussions in the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) and while quite a number of representatives did not consider such activities as being in conflict with applicable...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
.... For instance, in 2018, Mexico chaired the 61st session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), as well as the special segment UNISPACE+50. More recently, AEM was invited by the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
.... After nearly a decade of intergovernmental negotiations, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) adopted the Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (LTS Guidelines) in June of 2019...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... ‘Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space’, and the recently adopted 21 UN COPUOS ‘Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities’. The difficulty is that all the existing...
