United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

Context: United Nations has appointed Indian-origin satellite expert Aarti Holla-Maini as the Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. About United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs:

• The Office for Outer Space Affairs is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
• The Office forms part of the United Nations Office at Vienna.
• The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: It serves as the Secretariat for the General Assembly’s only committee dealing exclusively with those issues.
• The Committee has two sub-committees:
  1. The Scientific and Technical Subcommittee
  2. The Legal Subcommittee.
• Functions: 

• • On behalf of the Secretary-General, the Office for Outer Space Affairs maintains the Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space and disseminates via its website that information recorded in the Register.
  • The Office also prepares and distributes documents, reports, studies and publications on various aspects of space science and technology applications and international space law.

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