🚀#COPUOS2025 blasted off today with the opening of the Scientific and Technical Sub-Committee (STSC). Chair Ulpia Elena Bontezatu 🇷🇴 welcomed 104 member states, including newest Members 🇩🇯 & 🇱🇻, its 56 observers and ad-hoc observers including 🇭🇷, 🇷🇸, 🇻🇦 & League of Arab States.🌌 Other new observers include the African Astronomical Society , the Outer Space Institute, Space Data Association, Space Renaissance International, & The Global Satellite Operators Association. 🇺🇳 Director Aarti Holla-Maini delivered remarks highlighting key achievements in 2024 including: 🛰️2395 satellite registrations with UNOOSA. 🌒 Advancing int'l coordination on lunar exploration, including 1) the establishment of the Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation (ATLAC), where we welcome Hasan Abbas 🇵🇰 and Ulpia Elena Botezatu 🇷🇴 as new co-chairs, and 2) the establishment of the 5th ICG working group on Lunar positioning, navigation and timing. 🌏 UN-SPIDER conducted institutional ...