UN Submissions

A team of OSI researchers has made a short submission to the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities established under the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS).

The submission focuses on identifying existing core principles for space resource activities. It does not analyse these core principles, nor does it provide a comprehensive overview of all of the rules and principles that may potentially be relevant to space resource activities. This limited scope is consistent with the current ambitions of the Working Group, which also focus on core principles.

Project Ploughshares and the Outer Space Institute. December 2023. With contributions from: Jessica West, Paul Meyer, David Kendall, Adam Bower, Mac Evans, Aaron Boley, Michael Byers, and Ram Jakhu.

OSI Fellow Paul Meyer led a working group consisting of Michael Byers, Aaron Boley, Adam Bower and Jessica West in the preparation of a submission to the third substantive session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on “Reducing Space Threats through norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours” that calls attention to non-kinetic ASAT weapons.

In May 2022, Paul Meyer led several Fellows of the OSI in preparing a written submission to the first session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on “Reducing Space Threats through norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours.”