🌍⚖️ Week One Wrap-Up! The 1st week of the Legal Subcommittee
#COPUOS2025 just concluded. With record private sector input, the LSC reaffirmed its key role in shaping global space law & policy. Highlights:
1️⃣ Chair Santiago Ripol welcomed 104 Member States, 56 Permanent Observers & 6 new ad-hoc observers: 🇱🇮 🇲🇹 🇺🇬 the League of Arab States, ACES Worldwide & Lunar Policy Platform.
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#UNOOSA Director Aarti Holla-Maini opened the session by emphasizing COPUOS’s leadership in global space governance & the call for bold, dynamic solutions.
3️⃣ States addressed legal issues incl. space traffic, debris mitigation, sustainable space resource use, the status of UN space treaties, & the delimitation of outer space.
4️⃣ On Monday, UNOOSA hosted "Commercial Perspectives on Space Situational Awareness" with industry leaders from NorthStar Earth & Space, Digantara, Amazon Project Kuiper & Arabsat.
5️⃣ On Tuesday 6 May, the Director moderated "Space traffic: Managing vs Coordinati...