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Messages from Space Explorers
to Future Generations
PDF file in all official languages of the United Nations (2.5 MB)
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.
21 May 2012
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2012
Information for Participants
A/AC.105/2012/CRP.1 (available in English only in PDF format)
14 May 2012
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2012
Provisional agenda for the fifty-fifth session (includes indicative schedule of work)
A/AC.105/L.282 (available in all official languages of the United Nations in PDF format)
4 May 2012
Legal Subcommittee: 2012
Report of the fifty-first session, held from 19 to 30 March 2012
Advance Edited Version (available in PDF format in English only)
International Day of Human Space Flight, 12 April 2012
Message from the Secretary-General on the International Day of Human Space Flight
UNIS/SGSM/336
Space Tours at the Vienna International Centre
UNIS website
18 January 2012
General Assembly Resolutions Relating to Outer Space
A/RES/66/71: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
General Assembly Resolutions (PDF format, available in all official languages of the United Nations)
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21 March 2012
Legal Subcommittee: 2012
Daily Journals: No.4 of 21 March 2012 (available in English and French only)
Daily Journal No.4