Celebrating 50 Years of Women in Space

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.

What's New

11 June 2013
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2013
Daily Journals: No.1 of 11 June 2013 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.1
COPUOS 2013 session page

10 June 2013
United Nations Space Exhibit
Donation of a Galileo satellite model, 10 June, 13:15 -13:45 hrs
Photos

3 June 2013
Celebrating 50 Years of Women in Space: 12 -21 June 2013
Media Advisory
Women Astronauts & Cosmonauts Panel at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, 13 June, 19:00 hrs
Entrance is free (Panel is in English only)
Panel Information
Press Release
Space Exhibit at the Vienna International Centre, 12- 21 June
Space Tours offered by the United Nations Information Centre
Women in Space page

24 April 2013
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2013
Compilation of proposed draft guidelines of expert groups A to D of the Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities, as at STSC 2013
A/AC.105/1041 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)
COPUOS 2013 session page

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Global Development Agenda

Web resources
United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (external link)
Post-2015 Development Agenda website (external link)

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• Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Fifty-sixth session web-page (12-21 June 2013)
• Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: Fiftieth session web-page (11-22 February 2013)
• Legal Subcommittee, Fifty-second session web-page (8-19 April 2013)

• Workshop and Training Activities scheduled for year 2013
• Thematic Areas
  • Basic Space Science
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Natural Resources Management & Environmental Monitoring
  • Space Technology and Disaster Management
  • Satellite Communications
• Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education
• Space Activities of the UN System (UNCOSA)
• Programme on Space Applications main web-page

• Treaties and Principles
• Space Law Workshops
• UN Register of Space Objects
• Space Law main web-page

• World Space Week