§ 70102. Definitions
In this chapter—
(2)
“crew” means any employee of a licensee or transferee, or of a contractor or subcontractor of a licensee or transferee, who performs activities in the course of that employment directly relating to the launch, reentry, or other operation of or in a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle that carries human beings.
(4)
“launch” means to place or try to place a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle and any payload, crew, or space flight participant from Earth—
including activities involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle or payload for launch, when those activities take place at a launch site in the United States.
(5)
“launch property” means an item built for, or used in, the launch preparation or launch of a launch vehicle.
(6)
“launch services” means—
(7)
“launch site” means the location on Earth from which a launch takes place (as defined in a license the Secretary issues or transfers under this chapter) and necessary facilities at that location.
(9)
“obtrusive space advertising” means advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device.
(10)
“payload” means an object that a person undertakes to place in outer space by means of a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle, including components of the vehicle specifically designed or adapted for that object.
(11)
except in section
70104
(c), “permit” means an experimental permit issued under section
70105a.
(12)
“person” means an individual and an entity organized or existing under the laws of a State or country.
(13)
“reenter” and “reentry” mean to return or attempt to return, purposefully, a reentry vehicle and its payload, crew, or space flight participants, if any, from Earth orbit or from outer space to Earth.
(14)
“reentry services” means—
(15)
“reentry site” means the location on Earth to which a reentry vehicle is intended to return (as defined in a license the Secretary issues or transfers under this chapter).
(16)
“reentry vehicle” means a vehicle designed to return from Earth orbit or outer space to Earth, or a reusable launch vehicle designed to return from Earth orbit or outer space to Earth, substantially intact.
(17)
“space flight participant” means an individual, who is not crew, carried within a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle.
(18)
“State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and a territory or possession of the United States.
(19)
unless and until regulations take effect under section
70120
(c)(2), “suborbital rocket” means a vehicle, rocket-propelled in whole or in part, intended for flight on a suborbital trajectory, and the thrust of which is greater than its lift for the majority of the rocket-powered portion of its ascent.
(20)
“suborbital trajectory” means the intentional flight path of a launch vehicle, reentry vehicle, or any portion thereof, whose vacuum instantaneous impact point does not leave the surface of the Earth.
(21)
“third party” means a person except—
(A)
the United States Government or the Government’s contractors or subcontractors involved in launch services or reentry services;
(C)
a licensee’s or transferee’s contractors, subcontractors, or customers involved in launch services or reentry services;
(22)
“United States” means the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States.