The Spationary: A Dictionary of Essential Space Terminology for Lawyers

Air and Space Law

The Spationary: A Dictionary of Essential Space Terminology for Lawyers

By Lucien Rapp
Brill Nijhoff July 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789004725027
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Publication
July 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book enables readers to find, in a few moments, terms that they can use immediately or reprocess for the drafting of a legal text, a ruling, a contract or a scientific paper. For each of the 218 terms identified, a simple definition and a few additional elements are proposed. Where possible, entries also include examples, jurisprudence and doctrine. The purpose of this space dictionary is to be leafed through as needed to perfect the reader's knowledge. It will be updated regularly.

The Spationary is an invaluable resource, providing answers to simple queries; a simple, rapid and highly operational introduction to the international corpus juris spatialis; and an element of playfulness, because it is often through playful engagement with words and their definitions that a reader who may feel like an outsider can move into a universe or a scientific discipline.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Methodology
The Spationary
Absolute Liability
Accessibility (Space Accessibility)
Activity (Space Activity, Space Operation)
Actors (Space Actors, Space Operators)
Additive Manufacturing (Three-Dimensional “3D” Printing)
Aerospace
Aerospace Vehicle
Agency (Space Agency)
Air Traffic Control (ATC)
Aircraft
Airspace
Application (Space Application, Space-Based Application, Space-Enabled Application)
Artificial Intelligence in Space (See also Machine Learning, Deep Learning)
Astronaut (Alternatively: Cosmonaut, Taikonaut)
Astropreneurship (Space Entrepreneurship)
Authorization (License)

Big Data and Big Data Analytics
Blockchain in Space

Celestial Body
Cislunar Economy
Cloud Computing (Space Cloud Computing)
Colonization (Space Colonization)
Commercial Activities
Commercial Agreement
Commercialization (See also Commercial Activities)
Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) (See also Planetary Protection)
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)
Common Heritage of Mankind (Humankind)
Communications
Compensation
Compliance (Space Industry Compliance)
Component Part
Concentration (Merger)
Constellation (Satellite Constellation) (See also Small Satellites)
Consultation
Contamination (Backward Contamination, Forward or Outward Contamination
Harmful Contamination)
Continuing Supervision
Cooperation
Corporate Value Chain
Crew
Critical Infrastructure
Crowdfunding
Customary (International) Law
Cyber Attack

Damage
Data (Space Data)
Debris (Space Debris, Incl. Orbital Debris, Space Debris Mitigation)
Deep Learning
De-orbiting (See also Space Traffic Management)
Diplomacy (Space Diplomacy)
Dispute Resolution
Direct-to-Handset (DTH)

Earth Observation (EO)
Economy (Space Economy)
Entrepreneurship
Envoys of Mankind, Principle of
Exploration
Export Control

Fake News
Fault
Fault-Based Liability
Financing (Space Financing)
Freedom of Use Principle

Geolocation
Geostationary Orbit (GEO) (Alternatively: Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit or Geostationary Earth Orbit)
Geosynchronous Orbit (GSO)
Global Commons
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
Ground Station (or Earth Station or Terrestrial Station)
Group of Governmental Experts (GGE)
Guidelines

Hard Law
High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS)
High Seas (International Waters)

Imagery
In-Orbit Insurance (or Satellite Life Insurance)
In-Orbit Servicing (On-Orbit Servicing, OOS)
In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
In-Space Manufacturing (or On-Orbit Manufacturing)
Insurance (Space Insurance)
Intelligence
Interference (Harmful Interference)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities (ICOC)
International Foreign Investment Regime
International Liability
International Organization (Space International Organization)
International Responsibility
International Space Law (Corpus Juris Spatialis Internationalis)
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Internet of Things (IOT)

Jamming and Spoofing
Joint and Several Liability
Jurisdiction and Control

Launch
Launch Insurance
Launch Vehicle (Alternatively: Launcher, Carrier Rocket)
Launching State
Launching State Liability Principle (OST)
Liability Convention
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Machine Learning
Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO)
Miniaturization
Mining (Space Mining) (Alternative Terms: Extraction, Development)
Moon Agreement

National Space Legislation
Near-Earth Object (NEO)
Negligence (Including Gross Negligence)
New Entrants
New Space (or NewSpace)
Non-appropriation Principle
Non-governmental Entity
Non-legally Binding United Nations Instruments on Outer Space
Nuclear (Reaction
Fuel
Power Sources
Safety)

Old Space (or Traditional Space)
Orbits (LEO, MEO)
Outer Space
Outer Space Treaty (OST)
Ownership (See also Property Rights)

Payload
Peaceful Purposes
Personnel of a Spacecraft
Planetary Protection
Privatization
Program (Space Program)
Property Rights (See also Ownership)
Province of All Mankind
Public Private Partnership (PPP)

Recycling in Space
Re-entry
Registration
Registration Convention
Remote Sensing
Rescue Agreement (Alternatively: Rescue and Return Agreement, or Astronaut Agreement, or Agreement on Astronauts)
Resilience (Resilience-Based Design)
Resolution (UN General Assembly Resolutions on Outer Space Matters)
Resources (Space Resources)
Reusability (of Space Systems)
Risk

Safety
Safety Zone (Alternatively: Keep-Out Zone, Exclusion Zone)
Satellite
Security (Space Security)
Settlement (Human Settlement in Space)
Small Satellites (Smallsats, Small Spacecraft)
Space Environment
Soft Law (Nudging)
Sovereignty
Space 4.0
Space Benefits (See also Province of All Mankind)
Space Law
Space Market
Space Object
Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
Space Traffic Management (STM)
Spacecraft (Space Vehicle)
Spaceflight Participant
Spaceport (Alternatively: Launch Complex, or Launch and Re-entry Site)
Spectrum (Electromagnetic Spectrum)
State of Registry
Suborbital
Supply Chain
Surveillance (Incl. Space Surveillance)
Sustainability

Technology (Disruptive Technology and Disruptive Innovation
Space Technology)
Telecommunication
Third Party (Incl. Third State)
Tourism (Space Tourism)
Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures (TCBMS)
Treaty

Ultrahazardous Activities
UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Utilization of Space Resources

Venture Capital

Weapon (Space Weapon, Anti-satellite Weapons / ASATs)
Weather (Space Weather)
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