United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs UNOOSA
Logo of the UNOOSA
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English name	United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
French name	Bureau des affaires spatiales des Nations unies
Seat of the organs	UN City , Vienna , Austria
Chair	Simonetta Di Pippo since 2014 Italy
founding	1958 and 1993
Upper organization	U.N.
www.unoosa.org

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs , shortly UNOOSA (of English United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs ), based in Vienna, is the agency of the United Nations for Outer Space Affairs , and serves to promote international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space . The office, established in 1992, has been headed by Simonetta Di Pippo since 2014 .

Organization and tasks

The UNOOSA has been located at the United Nations Office in Vienna in the Vienna International Center (also known as UNO-City ) shortly after it was founded and has further branches in Bonn and Beijing . The office is divided into two departments subordinate to the Office of the Director , which are composed of the Committee, Policy and Legal Affairs Section (CPLA) and the Space Applications Section (SAS).

The press and youth work as well as the 1976 register of all objects in flight that have entered space ( United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space ) are managed directly by the Office of the Director . The latter is available via the Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space (OSO) and is an important tool for determining space liability .

The SAS manages the UN-SPIDER platform founded in 2006 and the Program on Space Applications (PSA) launched in 1971, as well as taking on secretarial tasks for the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG). It is headed by Luc St-Pierre.

The CPLA is primarily entrusted with the secretarial duties for the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and also deals with space law . It is directed by the Swede Niklas Hedman.

Since the office is only entrusted with the civil use of space, military space matters are dealt with by the UN Conference on Disarmament (UNCD) in Geneva .

history

Emergence

Founded in 1958 as an expert group in the UN Secretariat in New York , it was assigned to the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs in 1962 and transformed into the Outer Space Affairs Division in 1968 . Upgraded to its own office in 1992, the headquarters were relocated to Vienna in 1993.

Office manager (selection)

• since 2014: Simonetta Di Pippo ( Italy ) 
• 2007-2014: Mazlan Othman ( Malaysia ) 
• 1999-2002: Mazlan Othman

See also

• European Institute for Space Policy (ESPI)

Web links

• UNOOSA website (English)
• Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space. In: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. (English). 
• Andy Bloxham: The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs: a guide. In: The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group Limited, September 27, 2010 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} UNOOSA Director, Simonetta Di Pippo. In: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .