Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism

Contents:

Commercial uses of space and space tourism: setting the scene

PART I Legal Challenges

1. The concept of the 'launching State' in commercial launch ventures
Armel Kerrest

2. Taking a stance: managing liability for commercial space activities
Lesley Jane Smith

3. The scope of international obligations to extend rescue assistance to 'astronauts' and 'personnel' under the Outer Space Treaty and the Return and Rescue Agreement
Steven Wood

4. Small satellites, large constellations, and space debris: in dubio pro LEO?
Ward Munters

PART II Regulatory Responses

5. US State spaceflight liability and immunity acts in context
Andrea J. Harrington

6. Commercial space operations within an existing national legal framework: some lessons learned and the challenges ahead
Daniel P. Murray

7. Developing a New Safety Regulatory System for Commercial Sub-orbital Spaceplanes in the UK - the Challenge!
Jeremy Stubbs

8. Red tape in the final frontier: Bigelow Aerospace's adventures in export control
Mike N. Gold and Christopher M. Hearsey

PART III Space Governance

9. Regulatory choices for sub-orbital flights carrying humans: elements for consideration
Thierry Herman and Alexander Soucek

10. Establishing a Regulatory Framework for the Development and Operation of Sub-orbital and Orbital Aircraft in the EU: the Role of the EASA
Jean-Bruno Marciacq

11. The Role of UNCOPUOS in the International Regulation of Non-Governmental Space Activities
Jean-Francois Mayence

12. National and international regulatory aspects of commercial space activities: self-regulation as the way forward?
Katrin Nyman-Metcalf

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• Legislação sobre transportes
• Direito internacional espacial e aeroespacial
• Ciência espacial

emerging space activities and space law; space developments and trends in regulation; legal and regulatory aspects of novel space activities; private; commercial actors; activities and space law; space tourism; commercial space transportation