7.2 Distinction between Air Space and Outer Space

The two regimes' contrast (the exam's table): Point Air space Outer space The foundation Sovereignty (the state's column) Freedom (the province of all mankind) The entry By consent (the ASAs' world) Free (the non-appropriation) The object's status The aircraft's nationality- registration The space object's registry-and-jurisdiction The primary treaty Chicago 1944 OST 1967 + the four The liability's regime The Warsaw-Montreal carriers' law The 1972 Liability Convention's absolute-fault ladder The armed dimension The civil-military split's faces The WMD ban; the peaceful purposes The delimitation problem (the boundary's debate): no treaty defines the line — the spatialist approach (the fixed line's candidates: the Karman line (~100 km) — the aerodynamic-vs-orbital flight's physical edge, the most-cited candidate) vs. the functionalist approach (no line needed: the object's function determines the regime — the aircraft-or- spacecraft's law) — the UNCOPUOS's decades-long non-agreement; the stakes (the sovereignty column's height; the space objects' free overflight above it).