On February 7th, 2025, OSI Junior Fellow Ewan Wright read a statement to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) Science and Technical Subcommittee on the long-term sustainability of outer space activities via cooperative lunar projects.
Watch Ewan speak at this link, beginning at 46:20 https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1j/k1jz5z3dg8
The Independent, with insights from Ewan Wright
The Washington Post with insights from Aaron Boley
Ewan Wright, Aaron Boley & Michael Byers. Sci Rep 15, 2966 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84001-2
Chapter by Alice Gorman in In Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble (eds) Mythologies of Outer Space.
This report is a public version of a discussion paper prepared for the Astro-Sat Workshop held on November 16th and 17th, 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Workshop participants included members of the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Center for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky (CPS), and of the CPS Work Package 2 (WP2), as well as other experts from multiple disciplines and backgrounds.
© Aaron Boley and Michael Byers, Outer Space Institute Report, November 2024.
On November 16 and 17, 2023, the Outer Space Institute (OSI) hosted a transdisciplinary workshop that addressed the proliferating issue of orbital light and spectrum pollution, resulting from the rapid increase in satellites placed in Earth orbits.
These paragraphs were authored by participants of the workshop. They do not reflect consensus-based or agreed-on recommendations. Rather, they represent a broad collection of rough ideas, suggestions, and potential action items with the aim of advancing the protection of dark and quiet skies from orbital light and spectrum pollution, through education, advocacy, collaboration, and more.
Paul Meyer. Open Canada
Paul Meyer. Centre for International Policy Studies Blog.
Discussion hosted by Canadian Pugwash and the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa, with Paul Meyer as a panelist.
UNGA79 Science Summit panel featuring OSI Fellow David Kendall
Michael Byers, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) No. 303
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