41-14-2. Definitions.
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As used in the Space Flight Informed Consent Act:
A. "crew" means an employee of a space flight entity 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;
B. "launch" means placing or trying to place a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle and any payload, crew or participant in a suborbital trajectory, in earth orbit in outer space or otherwise in outer space. "Launch" includes activities involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle or payload for launch when those activities take place at a launch site in New Mexico;
C. "launch vehicle" means:
(1)a vehicle built to operate in, or place a payload or human beings in, outer space; or
(2)a vehicle built to operate in, or transport a payload or human being by, suborbital flight;
D. "participant" means an individual who is not crew and who is carried within a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle;
E. "participant injury" means an injury sustained by a participant, including bodily injury, emotional distress, death, property damage or any other loss arising from the participant's participation in space flight activities;
F. "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;
G. "reenter" or "reentry" means to purposefully return or attempt to return a reentry vehicle and its payload, crew or participants from earth orbit or from outer space to earth;
H. "reentry vehicle" means a vehicle, including a reusable launch vehicle, designed to return from earth orbit or outer space to earth substantially intact;
I. "space flight activities" means:
(1)activities, including crew training, involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle, payload, crew or participant for launch;
(2)the conduct of a launch;
(3)activities, including crew training, involved in the preparation of a reentry vehicle and payload, crew or participant; and
(4)the conduct of a reentry; and
J. "space flight entity" means:
(1)a public or private entity holding a United States federal aviation administration launch, reentry, operator or launch site license, permit or other authorization for space flight activities; or
(2)a manufacturer or supplier of components, services or vehicles used by the entity that has been reviewed by the United States federal aviation administration as part of issuing such a license, permit or authorization.
History: Laws 2010, ch. 8, § 2; 2013, ch. 131, § 2; 2021, ch. 88, § 1.