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.
9 February 2010
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2010
Daily Journals: No.3 of 9 February 2010 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.3
8 February 2010
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2010
Daily Journals: No.2 of 8 February 2010 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.2
Industry Symposium on "Nurturing the Development of Space Technology"
Online Presentations
5 February 2010
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2010
Daily Journals: No.1 of 5 February 2010 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.1
3 February 2010
United Nations Programme on Space Applications
Report of the Expert on Space Applications
A/AC.105/969 (available in all official languages of the United Nations)
3 February 2010
United Nations Programme on Space Applications
United Nations/International Astronautical Federation International Workshop on "GNSS Applications for Human Benefit and Development ", 24-25 September 2010, in Prague, Czech Republic
Information & Application form
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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8 January 2010
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2010
Provisional agenda for the Forty-seventh session (includes indicative schedule of work)
A/AC.105/C.1/L.300 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)
5 January 2010
United Nations Programme on Space Applications: Global Navigation Satellite Systems
United Nations/Moldova/United States of America Workshop on the Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
17- 21 May 2010 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Information for Participants
4 September 2009
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2009
Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Fifty-second session
A/64/20 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)
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