UAE to Chair Committee on The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Publish date: Thursday، 02 June 2022

The UAE will chair the Committee on The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space "COPUOS". Omran Sharaf, will now chair COPUOS for a period of two years (2022-2023).

Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology and Chairwomen of the UAE Space Agency, said, "It’s a great honour for the Emirates to take the chair of COPUOS, particularly as we founded our space program on international partnerships and collaboration and continue to place these partnerships at the core of our space sector development."

The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) was created by the UN General Assembly in 1959 to govern the exploration and use of space, and was tasked with reviewing international cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, studying space-related activities, encouraging space research programmes and studying and recommending policy and the legal infrastructure supporting space exploration.

Congratulations to Omran Sharaf, Project Director of the Emirates Mars Mission, on his election as Director of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. The UAE continues to make notable contributions to the space sector & we wish Omran every success in his new role.
— محمد بن زايد (@MohamedBinZayed) June 1, 2022

Omran Sharaf, who will now chair COPUOS for a period of two years (2022-2023), serves as the project director of the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, UAE.

Sharaf was the first Emirati engineer to travel to Korea in the country’s technology transfer programme, which saw him working on the development of the DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2 remote sensing satellites.

In 2014, he was tasked with the development of the Emirates Mars Mission and its Hope Probe, currently orbiting Mars and researching the planets atmospheric dynamics.

UAE to Chair Committee on The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

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