Subjects:

Air & Space Law, Telecommunications Law

Contents:

The practice of commercial space law

implications of the cardinal principles of international space law for your client's project

obtain permission from a national authority - the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as an example

obtain registration in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Master International Frequency Register of yourt client's frequency assignment

secure co-ordination with INTELSAT, INMARSAT and EUTELSAT as appropriate of your client's satellite system

risk management

contracting for the launching of your client's satellite.

Concentrates on the law governing commercial space ventures, commercial telecommunications satellite projects, in particular. The telecommunications satellite industry is by far the most mature of all the commercial space industries with a commensurate body of law governing it, and many of the same types of regulatory processes and private law transactions discussed in this book also pertain to the implementation of other commercial, and even non-commercial and military space ventures.

The reader will find a description of the necessary legal actions lawyer and client must take to provide for the construction, launching and operation of a privately-owned telecommunications satellite. Both international and national laws and regulations pertaining to space projects are discussed.

A step-by-step approach to legal actions has been adopted to help make the book a practical reference tool. It is designed to assist lawyers in private practice, government attorneys, corporate legal counsel, entrepreneurial executives and teachers and students of space law.