---
kind: "unit"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
key: "stV/ch509"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 509"
heading: "Commercial Space Launch Activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/stV-ch509"
sections_count: 24
---

# Chapter 509 — Commercial Space Launch Activities

Title 51 — National and Commercial Space Programs › Subtitle V — Programs Targeting Commercial Opportunities

## Sections

- [§50901. Findings and purposes](/usc/51/50901.md)
- [§50902. Definitions](/usc/51/50902.md)
- [§50903. General authority](/usc/51/50903.md)
- [§50904. Restrictions on launches, operations, and reentries](/usc/51/50904.md)
- [§50905. License applications and requirements](/usc/51/50905.md)
- [§50906. Experimental permits](/usc/51/50906.md)
- [§50907. Monitoring activities](/usc/51/50907.md)
- [§50908. Effective periods, and modifications, suspensions, and revocations, of licenses](/usc/51/50908.md)
- [§50909. Prohibition, suspension, and end of launches, operation of launch sites and reentry sites, and reentries](/usc/51/50909.md)
- [§50910. Preemption of scheduled launches or reentries](/usc/51/50910.md)
- [§50911. Space advertising](/usc/51/50911.md)
- [§50912. Administrative hearings and judicial review](/usc/51/50912.md)
- [§50913. Acquiring United States Government property and services](/usc/51/50913.md)
- [§50914. Liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements](/usc/51/50914.md)
- [§50915. Paying claims exceeding liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements](/usc/51/50915.md)
- [§50916. Disclosing information](/usc/51/50916.md)
- [§50917. Enforcement and penalty](/usc/51/50917.md)
- [§50918. Consultation](/usc/51/50918.md)
- [§50919. Relationship to other executive agencies, laws, and international obligations](/usc/51/50919.md)
- [§50920. User fees](/usc/51/50920.md)
- [§50921. Office of Commercial Space Transportation](/usc/51/50921.md)
- [§50922. Regulations](/usc/51/50922.md)
- [§50923. Report to Congress](/usc/51/50923.md)
- [§50924. Space launch and reentry licensing and permitting user fees](/usc/51/50924.md)