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.
19 December 2014
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2015
Provisional agenda (including indicative schedule of work)
A/AC.105/C.1/L.341 (available in all official languages of the United Nations)
STSC 2015 Session web-page
18 December 2014
General Assembly Resolutions Relating to Outer Space
A/RES/69/85: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
General Assembly Resolutions (available in all official languages of the United Nations)
2 December 2014
UNOOSA Internship Opportunities: UN-SPIDER
Remote Sensing and Disaster Management Internships at Duty Station Beijing, China
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27 November 2014
Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities
Updated set of draft guidelines for the long-term sustainability of outer space activities
A/AC.105/C.1/L.340 (available in all languages of the United Nations)
11 November 2014
Committee & Subcommittee Meetings 2015
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Fifty-eighth session (10-19 June 2015)
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: Fifty-second session (2-13 February 2015)
Legal Subcommittee, Fifty-fourth session (13-24 April 2015)
9 September 2014
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2014
Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
A/69/20 (available in all languages of the United Nations)
COPUOS 2014 session web-page
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21 March 2012
Legal Subcommittee: 2012
Daily Journals: No.4 of 21 March 2012 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.4