1. Contribution of Adigun Ade ABIODUN at The Outreach Seminar on BSSI – ISON Cooperation 55 th Session of COPUOS United Nations, Vienna, Austria June 11, 2012

2. The PROBLEMS

3. ESA’s rendition of Space debris

4. Long-term sustainability of space activities (Asteroids & meteorites) Collective responsibilities Today, no global entity is responsible for the management of international space traffic; There is also no global mechanism for sharing space awareness information among all member States with space assets. 4

5. Solar Storms

6. Some of the Victims Nigeria : NigeriaSat-1 (Space Junk) Malaysia: RazakSat (Solar storms) South Africa: SumbadilaSat (Solar Storms)

7. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network Voluntary Assistance

8. Space Situation Awareness Space Surveillance Network (SSN) - USA Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite - USA The International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) - RUSSIA Space Surveillance System (SSS), and - RUSSIA The Space Data Association – A not-for-profit entity based in Malta and established in 2009 by three of the leading commercial satellite operators to collate data provided by participating satellite operators on the locations of their satellites with other external sources and to provide warning of potential collisions or radiofrequency interference (RFI)

9. Need for Collective Global Efforts Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines NEOs – Action Team 14’s Mission Planning and Operations Group (MPOG) Working Group on Sustainability of Outer Space Activities

10. Contributions of the developing cou ntries 1.Why participate? 2.The United Nations South Commission 3.Giant Equatorial Radio Telescope 4.Needed minimum contributions of each country for the safeguard of the outer space environment 5.ISON

11. Mastering New Sciences and Technologies The Ooty Radio Telescope

12. ISON Stations around the world

13. Please, Let us, the developing countries, do something tangible THANK YOU