01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
... to be added, such as synthetic aperture radar data. UNOOSA and SNC sign Dream Chaser Memorandum Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC...and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding toward defining ...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
... by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) and ... sectors, and international associations in 27 countries, were received by UNOOSA and carefully whittled down by 60 experts to nine; six of...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
..., have the possibility of conducting research in space. One of UNOOSA’s key roles in the mission will be to collect and select...About the author Simonetta Di Pippo has been Director of UNOOSA since 2014 and was previously Head of the European ...
15 May 2024
Lisbon summit calls for urgent action on space threats
... needs a globally inclusive and cooperative governance framework to safeguard present and future space operations, the director of UNOOSA told a major international conference in Lisbon, Portugal, this week. Aarti Holla-Maini said the world could...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
...). The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), states that 1400 objects in Earth orbit are functional... delegations of both the Technical and Legal Subcommittees of UNOOSA, and has resulted in the so-called Space Debris Mitigation...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
As of late 2018 the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) reported that there were 4,857 satellites in orbit, representing an increase of 4.79 percent compared to 2017. The fact is that ...
