Re: Sea Launch in Jeopardy?
Amanda,
> Well, this news on Sea Launch is a bit of a blow. Reading
> the Washington Post article, everyone seems fairly sure that the
> project will resume at some point in the near-ish future, even
> though the maiden launch will slip again (already June 98 ->
> early 99, and now?).
>
> Would it be possible for Boeing to get around these
> US State restrictions by moving the operation off-shore into
> international waters?
No. It is still bound by U.S. DoD munitions regulations prohibiting
certain technology to be exported or transferred.
> Will other innovative launch technologies
> be vulnerable to such paranoia?
Yes in many cases. It's a dangerous World out there as some yahoos
demonstrated in Africa recently. The nuclear saber-rattling in India,
Pakistan, N. Korea and China plus the nuke wantabees emphasis the
importance of proliferation control. If we're going to have
international private space launch success, we're going to have to play
by some basic rules, or be subject to political winds of fortune.
Challenging this can be very difficult and dangerous.
PS: Like the old joke goes, "It isn't paranoia if they really are out to
get you." :) BTW, I remember France doing some nuclear saber-rattling a
while back too.
--
Mark Reiff <mreiff1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Gratuitous political statement, look here ->
<http://home.earthlink.net/~markreiff/pork.jpg>
"I think we are all trying too hard to push space
versus finding the pulls that attract people and their money."
"The heavens reward great deeds, not excuses."
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