The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is an office of the UN Secretariat based in Vienna, Austria. Its primary mission is to promote and facilitate peaceful international cooperation in the uses and exploration of outer space and to ensure that the benefits of space science and technology are available to all countries, especially developing nations, to accelerate sustainable development
Key activities of UNOOSA include:
- Serving as the Secretariat for the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).
- Helping countries establish legal and regulatory frameworks for space activities.
- Maintaining the United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space.
- Running capacity-building programs, like the “Access to Space for All” initiative, and the UN-SPIDER program, which uses space-based information for disaster management.
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