Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Ac...
by greglindahl on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:52PM
(#18427558)
The rocket uses a fair amount of ITAR-restricted technology, which means that they needed a pretty robust US-based organization and engine manufacturing. The company also sold a bunch of suborbital rocket launches to the US government before they raised money to build an orbital rocket. And the money mostly came from US-based VCs. All of these details feed into the company HQ being in the US, but a majority of their employees appear to be in NZ.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Ac...
by wbl on Sunday November 11, 2018 @02:12PM
(#18427953)
ITAR restricts US parts. It does not apply to non US technology sources although Wassenar and MTCR are multilateral. It would be possible to make rockets with no ITAR covered parts. After all that's what Russia France and China have.
Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Ac...
by sandworm101 on Sunday November 11, 2018 @06:18PM
(#18429345)
Russian and Chinese rockets are definitely covered by ITAR. ITAR isn't a trade barrier or patent protection. It doesn't care about national origin. It applies to all export of relevant technologies from the US. So if you imported a Russian rocket into the US, its further export would be a violation of ITAR rules regardless of where that rocket first came from.