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.
5 December 2008
Space Activities of Member States and Organizations: 2008
Activities and research for 2008
Space Debris and Nuclear Power Sources
Near Earth Objects
International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG)
International Training Course on Satellite Navigation and Location Based Services, 18 June - 18 July 2008, Ahmedabad, India
Report of the Traning Course (PDF format in English only)
31 October 2008
International Space Law
United Nations/Thailand/European Space Agency (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"
24-27 November 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
(Postponed until 2009)
Web-page update
26 September 2008
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Fifty-first session, 2008
Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Fifty-first session (A/63/20)
A/63/20 (available in all official languages of the United Nations)
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