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Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:04PM (#17953227)
> a small country which doesn't belong to any international agreements

Look at the map of ITU member states [1] and tell me where you'll find this spacefaring nation.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Member_s...

Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by owenversteeg on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:20PM (#17953803)
Looks like Taiwan is not an ITU member and has a space program, several active satellites and their own launch vehicle in the works.
Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:40PM (#17954004)
> Taiwan is not an ITU member

"Taiwan, Province of China, is not listed separately in the UN M49 but included in China." [1]. It is an unofficial member, however, which is why you can dial +886 to get to Taiwan [2]. Practically speaking, with the U.S. providing Taiwan its security umbrella, enforcement mechanisms for a Taiwanese breach of ITU protocol would be straightforward.

[1] https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/definitions/re...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Te...

Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by tyldum on Monday September 10, 2018 @03:29PM (#17954412)
And their space program is more or less American.
Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by hadrien01 on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:23PM (#17953834)
Taking your map, let's imagine I create a company in Western Sahara and launch a satellite from there. What would happen?
Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:34PM (#17953940)
> let's imagine I create a company in Western Sahara and launch a satellite from there. What would happen?

If you're launching out of Western Sahara, it strongly implies (a) you're doing something naughty and (b) procured your equipment through illicit channels. The reasoning behind (a) is you'd spend vastly more on (b) trying to do this out of Western Sahara than you ever would on compliance in an ITU-member nation. The reasoning behind (b) is export controls.

I thus presume the response would be military (i.e. detainment, not blowing things up). This would probably be the responsibility of whomever you're a citizen of, or whomever gets angry enough about you. (In Western Sahara, probably NATO, Algeria or Morocco.) The more realistic concern is someone bribing officials in an ITU member state.

Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:41AM (#17957843)
If you actually launch without, somehow, anyone knowing about you and having "conversations" with you beforehand, then it depends on the direction in which you launch. If you launch prograde, it'll most likely be shot down by Russian interceptors. If you launch retrograde, it'll most likely be shot down by American interceptors.
Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by walterbell on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:28PM (#17953888)
A polite conversation with host country leadership?
Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was ... by bilbo0s on Monday September 10, 2018 @03:05PM (#17954183)
I'm fair certain the "authorities" in that area of the world would not be "polite" under the circumstances that hadrien01 postulates.