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Electronic Proceedings - United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

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The <strong>United</strong> <strong>Nations</strong> Register of ObjectsLaunched into <strong>Outer</strong> <strong>Space</strong>Application of Article II of the Registration Convention:Definition of the State of Registry:The term "State of registry" means a launching State on whose registry a spaceobject is carried...Where there are two or more launching States in respect of any such space object,they shall jointly determine which one of them shall register the object.Problem No. 1:There are some violations of the provision that the space object should be registeredonly by one State:USA & India: Insat 1A and its launcher rocket (1982-031A and B, 1983-089C), Insat 1D (1990-051A)USA & UK: UOSAT 1 (1981-100B), ICO 2 (2001-026A)USA & France: TOPEX/POSEIDON (1992-052A)USA & ESA: ESA-GEOS 1 (1977-029A), EXOSAT (1983-051A), ULYSSES (1990-090B)USA & Argentina: SAC-B (1996-061A), SAC-C (2000-075B)USA & Sweden: Munin (2000-075C)USA & Russian Federation: Reflektor (2001-056E)USA & Germany: Grace 1 and 2 (2002-012A and B)China & Brazil: CBERS 1 and SACI 1 (1999-057A and B)Not registered:ZARYA (1st ISS module - 1998-067A): launched by Russian Federation <strong>for</strong> USA(marked as "American registration" in the document ST/SG/SER.E/354).46

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