{"product_id":"how-high-the-sky-the-definition-and-delimitation-of-outer-space-and-territorial-airspace-in-international-law-9789004366015","title":"How High the Sky?: The Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space and Territorial Airspace in International Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210750091607,"sku":"9789004366015","price":192.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-high-the-sky-the-definition-and-delimitation-of-outer-space-and-territorial-airspace-in-international-law-9789004366015","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}