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Global Space Exploration Landscape: Strategies and Programmes

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In Europe, space exploration, including human spaceflight and robotic exploration, has traditionally been handled by ESA in collaboration with national space agencies. The last official document presenting ESA strategy in space exploration was endorsed during ESA Council at Ministerial level held in Luxemburg on 2 December 2014. This document is the Resolution on Europe’s space exploration strategy.

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    Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, UNISPACE+50 Thematic Priority 1: Global partnership in space exploration and innovation, Vienna, 7-16 June 2011.

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    1. Global partnership in space exploration and innovation, 2. legal regime of outer space and global space governance, 3. enhanced information exchange on space objects and events, 4. international framework for space weather services, 5. strengthened space cooperation for global health, 6. international cooperation towards emission and resilent societies, 7. capacity building for the twenty-first century.

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    The thematic priorities and their objectives were recommended by the Scientific and technical Subcommittee and at its fifty-third session and by the Legal Subcommittee at its fifty-fifth session, for further consideration by COPUOS at its fifty-ninth session. UNISPACE+50 thematic priorities and their long-term deliverables will align the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Iacomino, C. (2019). Global Space Exploration Landscape: Strategies and Programmes. In: Commercial Space Exploration. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15751-7_2

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