UK statement on the "Report of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee" at COPUOS & More News Here

Chair, distinguished delegates,

The United Kingdom wish to lengthen its due to COPUOS delegates and UNOOSA who contributed to the success of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee this yr. We would additionally prefer to thank the chair Juan Francisco Facetti, for his or her exhausting work in presiding over the classes.

The United Kingdom attaches nice significance to the Long-Term Sustainability of the Outer Space Environment. Sustainability is simply as vital in area as it’s on earth.

We have been delighted that the working group on the long run sustainability of outer area have been in a position to agree the phrases of reference, strategies of work and workplan for the subsequent 5 years. We wish to once more, specific our due to the Chair of the working group, Umamaheswaran R for his or her devoted management. We stay up for starting our work and constructing on the success of the earlier working group.

To obtain the objective of a sustainable area setting, the UK is taking part in a number one function alongside UNOOSA in supporting an inclusive method to capability constructing and implementation of the Guidelines for the Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space.

To assist the implementation of tips C.1 and C.2 on worldwide cooperation, the UK was happy to have established our first mission with UNOOSA in 2021, which supported awareness-raising and capability constructing in relation to the LTS tips. Phase 1 of the mission led to concrete outcomes, particularly the publishing of an accessible model of the LTS tips in all 6 official UN languages. Three skilled occasions with trade, regulators and area businesses additionally led to the manufacturing of nearly 45 implementation case research.

For part two of the mission, UNOOSA carried out 42 interviews with Member States of COPUOS and worldwide intergovernmental organizations to establish challenges related to implementation. We are extraordinarily happy that this report has now been printed on UNOOSA’s web site. We wish to thank the crew at UNOOSA for all their exhausting work in pulling collectively such an informative useful resource. Sharing approaches and challenges of implementation of the LTS tips is significant for our work going ahead and so we’d additionally like to specific our appreciation and due to all those who have been interviewed and supplied their views and info.

From the UK’s perspective, understanding ‘what is stopping countries from being able to implement the guidelines’ is essential to understanding the type of future capacity-building actions.

The report demonstrates the numerous vary of approaches and challenges that Member States have when implementing the tips and the differing approaches Member States must supervising their nationwide area actions. The success of the tips is evident, with interviewees hailing the adoption of them as a landmark achievement in area coverage and area diplomacy. Despite being comparatively new, some interviewees confirmed that that they had already been referred to in nationwide area regulation sources.

It additionally was acknowledged ceaselessly that “legal certainty is one of the best incentives that a Member State can offer to its space sector”.

However, regardless of this assertion, the report highlights the challenges of implementation significantly as a result of some of the stakeholders stay unaware of what they need to do or from whom they will search help when operationalising the tips.

As COPUOS spent nearly a decade negotiating these voluntary tips, and given the challenges raised in the report, we imagine that focussing on implementation, in phrases of the work of new working group is prime. This will allow us to establish potential gaps and challenges that will type the foundation of suggestions to make sure we proceed to work to implement them.

We wish to spotlight that collectively with UNOOSA the UK can be holding a facet occasion on Thursday ninth June between 10 and 11 am, Vienna time, just about alongside different distinguished delegates to speak about experiences in implementing the tips. We would welcome all to hitch.

Finally, the United Kingdom has participated in the Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space for a few years and acknowledges its effectiveness relating to all technical elements of such energy sources, and for selling and facilitating the implementation of the Safety Framework.

Considering the plans for area missions carrying crew to different photo voltaic our bodies similar to the moon and Mars, some which can embrace the expanded use of nuclear energy sources, the agreed suggestion by STSC final yr, for an extra one-year extension of the multi-year workplan to 2023 with the intention to finalize the report back to the Subcommittee can be very useful with the intention to discover choices for gathering details about advances in data, practices and plans for future area nuclear energy supply purposes. The UK anticipates that the Working Group will suggest to the STSC, the new preparations that can be wanted to take ahead the improvement of security tips for potential future makes use of of nuclear energy sources in outer area.

The UK would additionally prefer to take this chance to thank Dr Sam Harbison for his devoted and skilful work chairing this Working Group for a few years and the exhausting work in following up all of the casual and formal conferences of the nuclear energy sources Working Group throughout the course of the Working Group’s time. The UK expresses our honest gratitude for his vital half in the time, data and helpfulness he brings to the working group and the progress made to this point.

Thank you in your variety consideration.

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