The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. UNOOSA serves as the secretariat for the General Assembly's only committee dealing exclusively with international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space: the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).
UNOOSA is also responsible for implementing the Secretary-General's responsibilities under international space law and maintaining the United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space.
Through the United Nations Programme on Space Applications, UNOOSA conducts international workshops, training courses and pilot projects on topics that include remote sensing, satellite navigation, satellite meteorology, tele-education and basic space sciences for the benefit of developing nations. It also maintains a 24-hour hotline as the United Nations focal point for satellite imagery requests during disasters and manages the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER).
UNOOSA is the current secretariat of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG).
UNOOSA also prepares and distributes reports, studies and publications on various fields of space science and technology applications and international space law. Documents and reports are available in all official languages of the United Nations through this website.
UNOOSA is located at the United Nations Office at Vienna, Austria.
26 August 2010
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2010
Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Fifty-third session, June 2010
A/65/20 (available in all official languages of the United Nations)
11 August 2010
International Space Law
UN/Thailand/ESA Workshop on Space Law "Activities of States in Outer Space in Light of New Developments: Meeting International Responsibilities and Establishing National Legal and Policy Frameworks", 16 to 19 November 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
Information Note and Application Form
29 July 2010
International Space Law
Texts of the space-related United Nations treaties, declarations, legal principles and related resolutions adopted by the General Assembly
ST/SPACE/51 (PDF format, available in all official languages of the United Nations)
21 June 2010
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2010
Daily Journals: No.10 of 21 June 2010 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.10
Technical Presentations made during the Committee
Online Presentations
28 January 2010
General Assembly Resolutions Relating to Outer Space
A/RES/64/86: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
General Assembly Resolutions (PDF format, available in all official languages of the United Nations)
20 January 2010
Highlights in Space 2009
Review of developments in space science, technology, space applications, international collaboration and space law during 2009
ST/SPACE/46 (available in English in PDF format only)
17 January 2010
United Nations Programme on Space Applications: More opportunities for students and young professionals to attend 20th UN/IAF International Workshop on "GNSS Applications for Human Benefit and Development" and 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Pague, Czech Republic, in September 2010, are available through IAF Youth Grants Programme .
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