https://spacewatch.global/tag/skao/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:38:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/skao/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/12/unoosa-2025-policy-makes-possibilities-protecting-the-dark-and-quiet-sky-with-prof-aaron-boley/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=69810 In this Space Café Clip, Kelly Soverns, Field Reporter at SpaceWatch.Global, speaks with Prof. Aaron Boley of the University of British Columbia, Co-Director of the Outer Space Institute, and a leading voice within the International Astronomical Union’s CPS Policy Hub, during the UNOOSA Dark and Quiet Skies Workshop in Vienna.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/01/sweden-joins-square-kilometer-array-observatory/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=63554 Sweden has signed up to join the SKA Observatory as Stefan Gullgren, Sweden's ambassador to the UK signed the SKA Observatory Convention at the Swedish Embassy in London on January 21.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/01/skao-to-welcome-india-as-permanent-member/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=53083 The Indian Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), which is jointly funding India’s contribution alongside the Department of Science and Technology, has announced that plans are now underway to sign the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) Convention, the intergovernmental organization’s founding treaty. The observatory had anticipated full membership as the Indian Government was a party to the negotiation of the SKAO Convention and participated in the preparatory activities that led to the creation of the Observatory in early 2021.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/03/eso-and-astronomy-groups-petition-the-un-copuos/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46959 An international collaboration involving ESO has submitted a paper to the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) proposing a new Expert Group to protect dark and quiet skies. The paper underwent discussion at the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC) of COPUOS under a special agenda item on Dark and Quiet skies.]]>