Bill, Some corrections: 1) ITAR always applies; you are just trying to meet its restrictions. 2) Also need to add to your list of conditions "participation for the US made satellite launched on US launcher is limited to US persons" 3) The US launcher has to be owned by a US customer. If a US launcher is purchased by a foreign customer, then you will need to sit at the table and discuss technical launch integration details - TAA needed. 4) In order to accept foreign payloads you will need a TAA in order to have a technical discussion. The only exception to that may be opening a catalog, choosing a device, calling the foreign company and ordering the device per the catalog with no technical discussion what so ever. So unfortunately, there is no such thing as "ITAR doesn't apply".
ITAR sucks, but fortunately for everyone, there is light at the end of the tunnel. When the industry advocated ITAR a few decades ago, it did so to protect the US aerospace industry from foreign competition. As a result, we can attribute the huge success of foreign organizations to ITAR. We didn't give them a fish, so they learned how to fish themselves. Now that in the past 5 or so year, the US Govt and DoD have been purchasing hardware abroad and therefore circumventing the purpose of ITAR, the industry is up in arms and out to significantly minimize ITAR. So we have to sit back and watch it happen. Hopefully, it won't take too long.
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-----Original Message----- From: eagle-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:eagle-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Bill Ress Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:49 PM To: Bob McGwier Cc: 'EAGLE' Subject: [eagle] Re: ITAR BS
Bob, et al.
But I can tell you this fact right now. ITAR _DOES NOT_ apply to an AMSAT satellite launched by a USA company. Additionally, ITAR DOES NOT apply to material, hardware or software, we receive from outside the USA for inclusion into our USA company launched satellite. The big key here is USA company launch. Hence the attractiveness of the Intelsat rideshare. ITAR doesn't apply.