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Register Today For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes With Dr. Natalia Archinard” On 22 September 2020

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Natália Archinard, Deputy Head of the Science, Education, Transport and Space Section at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). This event will take place on 22 September 2020 at 4:00 pm CEST.

“Switzerland’s Commitment to Space Sustainability”

In this discussion, Dr. Natália Archinard will talk about challenges to space sustainability and how they are dealt with at UNCOPUOS and other intergovernmental bodies. She will further elaborate on the global governance of space activities and the difficulties to maintain the multilateral dialogue alive in times of COVID-19 and as developments in space activities by both States and private actors are flourishing.

This Space Café WebTalk will be hosted by Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions in dialogue with Dr. Archinard .

This Space Café WebTalk will be conducted in English. Reserve your place today. 

To register please click here

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