with Michael Byers
Outer Space Institute Statement on the Duty to Assist Persons in Distress
OSI Fellow and Research Coordinator Beatriz Paiva Soeiro presented a statement at the plenary session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) on June 30th, 2025. The statement addressed agenda item 15, discussing the duty to assist persons in distress and recommending a broad interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) Article V.
Watch Beatriz speak at this link, beginning at 2:01:50
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f/k1fdsg7x6u
Trump’s Space Cuts Should be a Wake Up Call for Canada
What should space mean for Canada and Canadians today? Tanya Harrison, SpaceQ.
Trump’s Golden Dome – Canada should steer well clear of this American boondoggle
Paul Meyer. Open Canada
Why space exploration must not be left to a few powerful nations
OSI Fellow Timiebi Aganaba was the lead author of this article in Nature, asserting that Indigenous people and others need a say in space-industry decisions.
Supplementary Paper to Outer Space Institute Statement on Notices to Lunar Missions
OSI Junior Fellow Charlotte Hook and Fellow Robin J. Frank attended the sixty-fourth session of the Legal Subcommittee of COPUOS. This paper is supplement to the statement presented by the OSI on May 8th, 2025.
Outer Space Institute Statement on Notices to Lunar Missions (NLMs)
OSI Junior Fellow Charlotte Hook presented a statement to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) Legal Subcommittee on May 8th, 2025, partaking in a general exchange of views on potential legal models for activities in the exploration, exploitation and utilization of space resources and discussing the implementation of Notices to Lunar Missions (NLMs).
Watch Charlotte speak at this link, beginning at 1:21:00 https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1j/k1jz5z3dg8
Should we mine in space?
Doha Debates Podcast with OSI Fellow Alice Gorman and Jose Acain
Comment on Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s (ISED) consultation on Changes to Licensing Requirements and Conditions of Licence on Space Debris Mitigation
OSI Fellows and Junior Fellows submitted this comment in response to ISED’s proposed framework for consideration of debris mitigation via station-keeping, collision avoidance, and end-of-life considerations, among others. Our comment intends to support for debris mitigation measures, suggest improved methods, and emphasize the need to protect Dark and Quiet Skies and the Earth-Space environment.
We are as strangers here now’: Interplanetary landscapes and cadastral colonialism
Chapter by Alice Gorman in Asif Siddiqi (ed) Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.
Outer Space Institute Statement on the Earth-Space System and its relation to Dark and Quiet Skies
On February 11th, 2025, OSI Co-Chair Aaron Boley read a statement to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) Science and Technical Subcommittee on the Earth-Space System and its relation to Dark and Quiet Skies.
UN COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee General Exchange of Views
On February 11, 2025, OSI Co-chair Aaron Boley attended and presented a statement to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Scientific and Technical Subcommittee to introduce the OSI and discuss our alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.