Comments on: Entrepreneurial space policy and ITAR http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/05/16/entrepreneurial-space-policy-and-itar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=entrepreneurial-space-policy-and-itar Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Ryan Zelnio http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/05/16/entrepreneurial-space-policy-and-itar/#comment-2980 Mon, 16 May 2005 19:13:48 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=544#comment-2980 This is a very sore subject amongst the other commercial space companies, namely the satellite builders. Since commsats have been placed under the ITAR list in 1999, the U.S. satellite manufacturing sector has lost billions in contracts to global competitors. In a business with only 20-30 contracts awarded annually, every contract counts and due to ITAR, we are being hurt in our ability to even bid. Not just to countries like China, but also to our friends in Canada like Telesat!

Once again, US policy is pushing business across the ocean. You’d thought we would have learned our lesson back in the 80s where our policies helped pushed the europeans to develop the arianne rocket which is now the most dominate commercial heavy launcher in the world.

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