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U.S. Code / Title 51 — National and Commercial… / Subtitle V—Programs Targeting Commercial Opportunities
Title 51Chapter

Chapter 509—Commercial Space Launch Activities

Contents

  1. § 50901. Findings and purposes
  2. § 50902. Definitions
  3. § 50903. General authority
  4. § 50904. Restrictions on launches, operations, and reentries
  5. § 50905. License applications and requirements
  6. § 50906. Experimental permits
  7. § 50907. Monitoring activities
  8. § 50908. Effective periods, and modifications, suspensions, and revocations, of licenses
  9. § 50909. Prohibition, suspension, and end of launches, operation of launch sites and reentry sites, and reentries
  10. § 50910. Preemption of scheduled launches or reentries
  11. § 50911. Space advertising
  12. § 50912. Administrative hearings and judicial review
  13. § 50913. Acquiring United States Government property and services
  14. § 50914. Liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements
  15. § 50915. Paying claims exceeding liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements
  16. § 50916. Disclosing information
  17. § 50917. Enforcement and penalty
  18. § 50918. Consultation
  19. § 50919. Relationship to other executive agencies, laws, and international obligations
  20. § 50920. User fees
  21. § 50921. Office of Commercial Space Transportation
  22. § 50922. Regulations
  23. § 50923. Report to Congress

Citation

Cite as
Title 51, U.S. Code
Edition
United States Code, 2024 Edition
Current through
01/06/2025

Official sources

Current text and notes (House OLRC)GPO edition on govinfoAbout the Statutes at Large

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