The terms and concepts used in this law shall have the following meaning:

1. Space activity is scientific space research, creation and application of space technology, use of space, launch and re-entry of launch vehicles ;
2. Objects of space activity (space equipment) are material subjects of artificial origin which are designed, produced and maintained both in space (a space segment, a space infrastructure), and on the surface of the Earth (a ground segment, a ground infrastruc- ture) with the purpose of research and use of space;
3. Subjects of space activity are enterprises, institutions and organisations, including international and foreign ones, carrying out space activity;
4. Declaration on the performance of economic activity in the space sector is a document by which space actor informs the central body of executive power, which is in charge of the formation and implementation of state policy in the space sector, about the intention to carry out space activity.
5. Space technologies and services are results of scientific development, methods, facilities and services necessary for the carrying out of space activity, for reception and use of results of this activity;
6. Incident is the incident connected with space activity which has caused a threat to life and health of people, as well as damage or destruction of property of citizens, enterprises, institutions and organisations or causing damage to the environment;
7. Emergency is the incident connected with space activity which has caused a threat to life and health of people, as well as destruction of property of citizens, enterprises, institutions and organisations or causing significant damage to the environment;
8. Rules of space activity are special rules, technical norms, standards regulating space activity and its security;
9. The personnel of objects of space activity are workers of enterprises, institutions and organisations, taking part in manufacturing, testing, operation of objects of space activity and liquidation of consequences of incidents and emergencies, as well as experts of enterprises, institutions, organisations and staff of the military units, involved in the fulfilment of this work;
10. The certificate of compliance is the document certifying compliance of an object of space activity to the requirements of serviceability of space equipment, regulated by the normative documents in force in Ukraine.