[Ground-station] Call for discussion: ORI satellite program

[Bruce Perens]

I will also be at the Cal Poly event next week.

There is no problem with Germans (or anyone else) collaborating in online
design, programming, discussions as long as every drop of the work gets
publicly archived. The carve-outs in both ITAR and EAR are clear, and have
been used for a decade by Open Source cryptography projects, among others,
without the difficulty that AMSAT has experienced. They do *not *require
paper publication, despite what DDTC wrote to AMSAT in 2009 - which simply
doesn't have a chance of standing in court today.

Transfer of physical objects across national boundaries or to citizens of
other nations is still problematic, and the easiest way to deal with that
is to carry out all manufacturing and assembly within the national entity
of the launch provider. This being the entire EU for Ariane, the US and its
possessions for NASA, USAF, SpaceX, ULA, Orbital ATK.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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