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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE |
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Title 4. LIABILITY IN TORT |
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Chapter 100A. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR SPACE FLIGHT ACTIVITIES |
Sec. 100A.001. DEFINITIONS
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In this chapter:
(1) "Launch" means a placement or attempted placement of a vehicle or rocket and any payload, crew, or space flight participant in a suborbital trajectory, earth orbit, or outer space, including activities involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle or payload for launch.
(2) "Reentry" means a purposeful return or attempt to return a reentry vehicle and the payload, the crew, or a space flight participant from earth orbit or from outer space to earth.
(3) "Space flight activities" means activities and training in all phases of preparing for and undertaking space flight, including:
(A) the preparation of a launch vehicle, payload, crew, or space flight participant for launch, space flight, and reentry;
(B) the conduct of the launch;
(C) conduct occurring between the launch and reentry;
(D) the preparation of a reentry vehicle, payload, crew, or space flight participant for reentry;
(E) the conduct of reentry and descent;
(F) the conduct of the landing; and
(G) the conduct of postlanding recovery of a reentry vehicle, payload, crew, or space flight participant.
(4) "Space flight entity" means a person who has obtained the appropriate Federal Aviation Administration license or other authorization, including safety approval and a payload determination. The term includes:
(A) a manufacturer or supplier of components, services, or vehicles used by the entity and reviewed by the Federal Aviation Administration as part of issuing the license or other authorization; and
(B) an employee, officer, director, owner, stockholder, member, manager, or partner of the entity, manufacturer, or supplier.
(5) "Space flight participant" means an individual, who is not crew, carried aboard a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle.
(6) "Space flight participant injury" means an injury sustained by a space flight participant, including bodily injury, emotional distress, death, property damage, or any other loss arising from the individual's participation in space flight activities.