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
Doha Debates Podcast with OSI Fellow Alice Gorman and Jose Acain
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.
Chapter by Alice Gorman in Asif Siddiqi (ed) Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.
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.
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.
On March 1 and 2, 2024, experts from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and countries gathered on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, to discuss existing and foreseeable security-related challenges arising from activities on-and-around the Moon. The workshop and the accompanying research, analysis, and consultations were conducted by the Space Security Network (SSN) and the Outer Space Institute (OSI).
This report is the result of the discussions of the workshop, along with the adoption of the “Moby’s Recommendations on Lunar and Cislunar Security”, which are named after one of the workshop dinner venues. The intended audience for the recommendations is broad, and includes governments, industry, and inter-governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The recommendations are reproduced at the end of this report.
© Aaron Boley and Michael Byers, Outer Space Institute Report, November 2024.
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
Exerpts from OSI Co-Chair Aaron Boley’s 2024 Dan MacLennan Memorial Lecture in Astronomy, held at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. CBC Radio Ideas.
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