How high the sky? : : the definition and delimitation of outer space and territorial airspace in international law / / by Thomas Gangale.

• VerfasserIn: Gangale, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Space Law 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (667 pages).
• Notes: Based on author's thesis (J.S.D. - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2017) issued under title: The definition and delimitation of outer space and territorial airspace in international law.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Foreword: Into the Lion’s Den Once Again -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Opening Arguments -- The Genesis of the Delimitation Issue -- The Political Approach: A Fistful of Theories -- The Political Approach: For a Few Theories More -- The Spatial Approach: Arbitrary Altitudes -- The Spatial Approach: Natural Phenomena -- The Spatial Approach: Aerodynamic Lift -- The Spatial Approach: Myths and Misconceptions -- The Spatial Approach: Aerostatic Buoyancy -- The Spatial Approach: Lowest Perigee -- The Functional Approach: Security of the State -- The Functional Approach: Its Rise and Stall -- The Functional Approach: What Are Space Activities? -- The Functional Approach: What Are Space Objects? -- What is Outer Space? -- A Temporal Approach -- National Practices and Legislation -- Right of Passage -- Effective Control and State Interest Reconsidered -- A Hybrid Approach -- A Draft Space Delimitation Convention -- Practical Considerations and the Convention -- The Outer Limits -- Summation -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.