How High the Sky?
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
9789004366015 (ISBN)
In How High the Sky?, jurist Thomas Gangale explores the oldest and most important controversy in space law: how far up does national airspace go, and where does the international environment of outer space begin? Even though nations did not object to the first satellites flying over their sovereign territory, after more than six decades there is still no international agreement on how low the right of space object overflight extends, nor are there agreed legal definitions of “space object” and “space activity.” Dr. Gangale brings his background as an aerospace engineer to bear in exploding long-held beliefs of the legal community, and he offers a draft international convention to settle the oldest and most intractable problems in space law.
Thomas Gangale, JSD (2017), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has published articles on space law, astrodynamics, engineering management, international relations, and political science. His previous books are From the Primaries to the Polls (Praeger, 2007) and The Development of Outer Space (Praeger, 2009).
Foreword: Into the Lion’s Den Once Again
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
1 Opening Arguments
2 The Genesis of the Delimitation Issue
3 The Political Approach: A Fistful of Theories
4 The Political Approach: For a Few Theories More
5 The Spatial Approach: Arbitrary Altitudes
6 The Spatial Approach: Natural Phenomena
7 The Spatial Approach: Aerodynamic Lift
8 The Spatial Approach: Myths and Misconceptions
9 The Spatial Approach: Aerostatic Buoyancy
10 The Spatial Approach: Lowest Perigee
11 The Functional Approach: Security of the State
12 The Functional Approach: Its Rise and Stall
13 The Functional Approach: What Are Space Activities?
14 The Functional Approach: What Are Space Objects?
15 What Is Outer Space?
16 A Temporal Approach
17 National Practices and Legislation
18 Right of Passage
19 Effective Control and State Interest Reconsidered
20 A Hybrid Approach
21 A Draft Space Delimitation Convention
22 Practical Considerations and the Convention
23 The Outer Limits
24 Summation
Appendix 1: Altitudes of Interest with Regard to Spatial Delimitation
Appendix 2: Space Object Perigees below 100 Kilometers
Appendix 3: Selected Suborbital Flights
Appendix 4: Space Vehicle Reentry Altitude and Range Profiles
Appendix 5: Space Vehicle Ground Tracks
Appendix 6: Draft Convention Regarding Delimitation
Appendix 7: Proyecto de Convenio Relativo a la Delimitación
Appendix 8: Projet de Convention Concernant la Délimitation
Appendix 9: Проект Конвенция Относительно Разграничении
Appendix 10: Progetto di Convenzione sulla Delimitazione
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Space Law ; 13 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1163 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004366015 / 9789004366015 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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