N.M. Stat. § 41-14-2

Current through 2024, ch. 69

Section 41-14-2 - Definitions

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.

NMS § 41-14-2

Laws 2010, ch. 8, § 2.

Amended by 2021, c. 88,s. 1, eff. 6/18/2021.

Amended by 2013, c. 131,s. 2, eff. 6/14/2013.

Laws 2021, ch. 88, § 2, effective 6/18/2021, repealed Laws 2010, ch. 8, § 5, as amended by Laws 2013, ch. 131, § 4, which would have repealed the Space Flight Informed Consent Act, effective 7/1/2021.