Messages from Space Explorers
to Future Generations
(available in all official languages of the United Nations)

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

19 December 2012

Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2013
Indicative schedule of work (Advance unedited version)
Indicative Schedule (available in PDF format in English only)

3 December 2012

International Space Law
Notification of the recovery of a space object by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
A/AC.105/1040 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)

31 October 2012

International Space Law
United Nations/Argentina Workshop on Space Law "Contribution of Space Law to Economic and Social Development", 5 to 8 November 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Programme

11 October 2012

International Day for Disaster Reduction, 13 October

20 September 2012

General Assembly: Fourth Committee
Draft Resolution on "International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space"
A/C.4/67/L.2 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)

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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 2012
• 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