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Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2021

Fifty-eighth session (19-30 April 2021)

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Statements

Session Documents

Daily Journals

Technical Presentations

• List of technical presentations for the 58th session of the STSC

IAF Symposium on "Global Views on Human Space Exploration", Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 CEST

• Programme

Digital Recordings of STSC 2021

STSC 2021 MEETING Guidelines

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Annotated Provisional Agenda

• Annotated provisional agenda (A/AC.105/C.1/L.387)
• Revised schedule of work, as of 19 April 2021
• Revised schedule of work, as of 20 April 2021
• Revised schedule of work, as of 23 April 2021
• Revised schedule of work, as of 26 April 2021
• Revised schedule of work, as of 27 April 2021
• Revised schedule of work, as of 28 April 2021
• Revised schedule of work, as of 28 April 2021, 5:00 PM

Note Verbales with organizational decisions

• CU 2021/116 - OOSA/2021/11 of 8 March 2021. Information Circular CU 2021/123 - OOSA/2021/12 (12 March 2021) informs that the decision was adopted by the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee as of 12 March 2021 11:01 a.m. (Vienna Time).
• CU 2021/150 - OOSA/2021/23 of 9 April 2021. Information Circular CU 2021/156 - OOSA/2021/26 of 13 April 2021 informs that the decision was adopted by the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee as of 12 April 2021 18:01 (6:01 p.m.) (Vienna Time).

Side Event Information

• From the Shadow of Exoplanets and Lost Dark Skies: Enlightenment by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 - Side Event by Switzerland - 19 April 2021,1:30-2:30 PM CEST
• International Lunar Research Station - Side Event by ROSCOSMOS/CNSA - 23 April, 2021, 9:00-10:30 AM CEST

STSC 2020 Session Page

Intersessional non-papers

• Non-paper submitted by Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Nigeria and the United States on a Terms of Reference, Methods of Work and Workplan for the establishment of a new Working Group on the long-term sustainability of outer space activities
• Drafting working document of the Russian Federation: Nomination of the Bureau of the Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
• Proposal submitted by China on Composition and Election of the Bureau of the Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (LTS2.0 Working Group)
• Non-paper submitted by Switzerland on the Bureau of the new Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (LTS)
• Communication by India reflecting the change of nominee

Virtual briefing to the Permanent Missions on the preparation for the upcoming 58th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, 30 March 2021

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, in its capacity as the secretariat of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Subcommittees, has the pleasure to invite States members of the Committee and permanent observers of the Committee to a briefing in preparation for the upcoming 58th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee. Ref. OOSA/2021/17 CU 2021/135 (24 March 2021)

The Briefing will take place on Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 CEST (2.00 - 3.00 p.m. Vienna time).

Click here to see the related Presentation.

Decision on the change to the schedule of work of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies in 2021

Further to its previous communication with ref: OOSA/2020/39 - CU/2020/430 of 18 December 2020, placing under silence procedure until Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 3:00 p.m. (Vienna time), a draft decision on the change to the schedule of work of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies in 2021, UNOOSA, in its capacity as secretariat of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its subcommittees, is pleased to inform that the silence procedure has concluded without objections.

Accordingly, the following decision is considered adopted by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space as of 3:01 p.m. (Vienna Time), 23 December 2020:

Decision: The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space agrees on the following tentative dates for its own session and the sessions of its subcommittees in 2021:

• Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 19-30 April 2021
• Legal Subcommittee: 31 May-11 June 2021
• Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 25 August-3 September 2021

Virtual Briefings in the lead up to the 58th session of STSC

• 27 November 2020
• 11 February 2021

Session Documents

General Assembly resolution: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (A/RES/76/76)

A/RES/76/76

Final Report of the 58th session (A/AC.105/1240)

A/AC.105/1240

Final Report of the COPUOS 64th session (A/76/20)

A/76/20

Draft Report of the 58th session (A/AC.105/C.1/L.386 & Addenda)

A/AC.105/C.1/L.386

Draft Report of the Working Group of the Whole (A/AC.105/C.1/WGW/2021/L.1)

A/AC.105/C.1/WGW/2021/L.1

Draft Report of the Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space (A/AC.105/C.1/NPS/2021/L.1)

A/AC.105/C.1/NPS/2021/L.1

Draft Report of the Working Group on Space and Global Health (A/AC.105/C.1/SGH/2021/L.1)

A/AC.105/C.1/SGH/2021/L.1

List of Participants (A/AC.105/C.1/2021/INF/50)

A/AC.105/C.1/2021/INF50

Annotated Provisional Agenda (including indicative schedule of work) (A/AC.105/C.1/L.387)

A/AC.105/C.1/L.387

Conference Room Papers (A/AC.105/C.1/2021/CRP.)

A/AC.101/C.1/2021/CRP.

Non-Papers

• Non-paper about the Space and Health Globally Accessible Platform (SH-GAP)
• Non-paper from Informal Consultations on LTS, 26 April

General Assembly resolution: Continuity of the work of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its subsidiary bodies (A/RES/75/92)

A/75/92

Decisions and actions by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Legal Subcommittee taken by written procedure (A/75/20)

A/75/20

Final Report of the 57th session (A/AC.105/1224)

A/AC.105/1224

Series: A/AC.105/C.1/

A/AC.105/C.1/

Series: A/AC.105/C.1/L.

A/AC.105/C.1/L.

Series: A/AC.105/

A/AC.105/

General Assembly resolutions and related documents

GARES & DOCS

COPUOS Reports

COPUOS Reports

STSC Reports

STSC Reports

Publications