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Above the altitude routinely used by commercial aviation and below the lowest orbit manageable by a space object, there is a gray area where aeronautic and astronautic activities may intersect each other. With the constant evolution of technology, this region has increasingly received more attention by legal scholars, international organizations and delegations before the UNCOPUOS, in efforts to properly regulate it through a common international regime.
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de Oliveira Bittencourt Neto, O. (2015). The “Protozone”/“Mesospace” Situation. In: Defining the Limits of Outer Space for Regulatory Purposes. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16685-8_5
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