United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Messages from Space Explorers
to Future Generations
2nd Edition now available in Chinese, English, French
Russian and Spanish
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
8 May 2013
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2013
Provisional agenda for the fifty-sixth session
Advance Edited Version (available in English only in PDF format)
COPUOS 2013 session page
6 May 2013
International Space Law
National Space Law: Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Space Activities
No.528-IV of 6 January 2012 (available in English only in PDF format)
29 April 2013
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2013
Indicative Schedule of Work
Advance Unedited Version (available in English only in PDF format)
COPUOS 2013 session page
24 April 2013
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2013
A/AC.105/1041: 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
Advance Edited Version (available in English only in MSWord format)
COPUOS 2013 session page
12 April 2013
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2013
Report on its fiftieth session, held in Vienna from 11 to 22 February 2013
A/AC.105/1038 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)
27 March 2013
United Nations/Indonesia International Conference on Integrated Space Technology Applications to Climate Change, 2-4 September 2013
General information
Information Note
Online Application
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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
- Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education
- Space Activities of the UN System (UNCOSA)
- Programme on Space Applications main web-page
21 March 2012
Legal Subcommittee: 2012
Daily Journals: No.4 of 21 March 2012 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.4