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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by inglor_cz on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:17AM (#40927167)
In practice, those who seek launches on commercial markets don't mind all those America-related complications much.

The US isn't really interested in the secrets of some Malaysian or Brazilian TV satellite.

Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by Beretta_Vexee on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:53AM (#40928266)
> The US isn't really interested in the secrets of some Malaysian or Brazilian TV satellite.

Once again, compliance with US regulations, including export control, dual-use goods and tax regulations, can be weaponized, and has been in the past.

Maybe the TV satellite manufacturer has also supplied a weather satellite to Brazil that contains technologies covered by export control, bingo. Your satellite and your assets in the USA are frozen until the manufacturer provide all the information needed to decide whether or not it was a spy satellite.

The godamn Mars rover is covered by 14 export control technologies. https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/pdfs/1008-satell...

It's a minefield and it was designed to be one. I know of several non-defense companies whose first question on the phone is "are you a US person as defined by FATCA and FISA ?".

Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by TheLoafOfBread on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:31AM (#40928047)
They don't until they compete with some big US company which has direct contacts into government. Then it suddenly matter.