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The Spationary: A Dictionary of Essential Space Terminology for Lawyers

The Spationary: A Dictionary of Essential Space Terminology for Lawyers

Author: Lucien Rapp
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004725027
Published In: July 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

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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