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10:59 pm
December 13, 2009
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brmj
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I'm pretty sure the shippable in an inert state = ITAR-friendly thing is wishful thinking. Last night I skimmed some of the relivant documents and I talked to Paul Graham today, and it looks like ITAR is pretty scary stuff.
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Main work groups: Propulsion (booster), Spacecraft Engineering, Computer Systems, Navigation and Guidance (software)
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11:03 pm
December 13, 2009
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Luke Maurits
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Aargh, seriously? How scary are we talking?
I realise now I was mistaken. The page I had in mind was this one, which has a bunch of dot points:
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Inert shipping – no solid fuels or explosives
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ITAR free – Rocket Lab is able to export to customers from any friendly nation
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Land or sea-based recovery is possible
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Payload recovery – A GPS transceiver uses the Inmarsat B satellite constellation to communicate the launch vehicle
Evidently the first and second dot points got mashed together in my memory.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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11:41 pm
December 13, 2009
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Luke Maurits
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If ITAR is super-duper scary and will seriously impair our ability to function in an open manner, I suppose would could always consider incorporating in a country other than the US. The biggest problem with this is that donations would not be tax deducatble for US citizens, who would likely make up our biggest source of potential financiers. That said, I don't know how much people – particularly individuals of the geek persuasion – care about that.
This would not be a panacea – US citizens posting technical data pertaining to USML items to a foreign server are probably considered to be exporting that data to that foreign country, and hence are bound by CSTART, but I think CSTART itself would not be restricted (by ITAR) from exporting that data to anybody, so it is a slight improvement.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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5:26 pm
February 24, 2010
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brmj
| | Rochester, New York, United States | |
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Currently chatting with Paul Graham.
Regaurding the recent thing about them apearently not giving us explciit aproval of friend of CSTART status:
"OK, cstart/ol friendship – yes absolutey we are friends/will work together. I sent an email from a work machine that didn't seem to get through, and, because it was a work computer, I wasn't able to get it off the sent box."
Glad to have that resolved.
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6:42 pm
February 24, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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Glad to have that finally cleared up! I will update the Wiki etc. shortly.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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