United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Basic Space Technology Initiative - Basic Activities

United Nations Basic Space Technology Symposiums

From 2009 to 2011 the Office for Outer Space Affairs held a series of three United Nations/Austria/ESA Symposium on Small Satellite Programme for Sustainable Development. One objective of these Symposiums was to prepare and review the work programme of the Basis Space Technology Initiative. For further information please consult the individual Symposium webpages and the Symposium reports:

• United Nations/Austria/ESA Symposium on "Small Satellite Programmes for Sustainable Development", Graz, Austria, 8 - 11 September 2009 (A/AC.105/966)
• United Nations/Austria/ESA Symposium on "Small Satellite Programmes for Sustainable Development: Payloads for Small Satellite Programmes", Graz, Austria, 21-24 September 2010 ( A/AC.105/983)
• United Nations/Austria/ESA Symposium on "Small Satellite Programmes for Sustainable Development: Implementing Small Satellite Programmes - Technical, Managerial, Regulatory and Legal Issues", Graz, Austria, 13-16 September 2011 ( A/AC.105/1005)

In-follow up to the series of three UN/Austria/ESA Symposiums on Small Satellite Programmes for Sustainable Development, held in Graz, Austria, from 2009 to 2011, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs will organize International Symposiums on Basic Space Technology Development in the regions that correspond to the United Nations Economic Commissions for Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Asia, starting in 2012.

• United Nations/Japan Nano-Satellite Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 10-13 October 2012 ( A/AC.105/1032)

Regulatory and Legal Issues

Registration of Satellites

• Registration of Satellites

Liability Issues and Space Debris Mitigation

• Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee
• Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Frequency Coordination

• Download the contents of the CD-ROM on "Frequency Registration for Small Satellite Programmes" provided by ITU-R to participants at the 2011 UN/Austria/ESA Symposium on Small Satellite Programmes (195Mb, .zip)
• Procedures for the notification of the allocation and use of frequencies (in cooperation with ITU)
• Amateur Radio Satellite Frequency Coordination (The International Amateur Radio Union)

Launch Opportunities

• CANEUS Global Launch Portal for Small Satellites
• United Launch Alliance Rideshare Capabilities (July 2011)
• Earth2Orbit (October 2012)

Note: These links are for information only and do not imply endorsement by the United Nations in any form.

Orbital Data Information and Conjunction Assessment Services

• The Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) of the United States of America has kindly provided the following information: Anyone from the international community who is interested in receiving conjunction assessment services is welcome to email JSpOCSpaceCorrespondence@vandenberg.af.mil with information on the satellites they operate and their preferred contacts. For other forms of support please submit an Orbital Data Request (instructions on  www.space-track.org), and for general questions please contact odr@space-track.org.

Open Standards and Standardization

• NEW: Announcement of International Workshop on Micro/Nano Satellite Testing Standardization, at the Kyushu Institute of Technology & Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Kitakyushu, Japan, December 10-14, 2012 (Registration)
• Nano-satellite Environment Test Standardization Project
• First Workshop on International Standardization of Nanosatellite Technologies, Kitakyushu, Japan, 14 December 2012
• European Cooperation for Space Standardization
• Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
• GENSO - ground station standard for operation of university satellites

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