How High the Sky?: The Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space and Territorial Airspace in International Law

Dedication
Contents
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