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US CodeTitle 51Chapter 509

Chapter 509

COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH ACTIVITIES

Title 51 - National and Commercial Space Programs

24 sections

Sections

§ 50901

Findings and purposes

Long

§ 50902

Definitions

Long

§ 50903

General authority

Short

§ 50904

Restrictions on launches, operations, and reentries

Medium

§ 50905

License applications and requirements

Long

§ 50906

Experimental permits

Medium

§ 50907

Monitoring activities

Short

§ 50908

Effective periods, and modifications, suspensions, and revocations, of licenses

Medium

§ 50909

Prohibition, suspension, and end of launches, operation of launch sites and reentry sites, and reentries

Short

§ 50910

Preemption of scheduled launches or reentries

Short

§ 50911

Space advertising

Short

§ 50912

Administrative hearings and judicial review

Short

§ 50913

Acquiring United States Government property and services

Medium

§ 50914

Liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements

Long

§ 50915

Paying claims exceeding liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements

Long

§ 50916

Disclosing information

Very short

§ 50917

Enforcement and penalty

Medium

§ 50918

Consultation

Short

§ 50919

Relationship to other executive agencies, laws, and international obligations

Medium

§ 50920

User fees

Very short

§ 50921

Office of Commercial Space Transportation

Very short

§ 50922

Regulations

Medium

§ 50923

Report to Congress

Short

§ 50924

Space launch and reentry licensing and permitting user fees

Medium