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There's also the whole conspiracy theory with Israel not wanting the launch to go through because it was a condition for the sale of the Israeli Spacecom to th
by wyager 10y ago
There's also the whole conspiracy theory with Israel not wanting the launch to go through because it was a condition for the sale of the Israeli Spacecom to the Chinese, and Israel wanted to
maintain control of their space industry.
- dogma1138 10y agoThe Israeli government approved the sale, they could've said no if they wanted too. If some one doesn't want Israel to transfer satellite technology to China it's not really the Israeli government. Also Spacecom is just a satellite operator, the satellite was built by IAI and other contractors, IAI is a state owned corporation which builds Israel's satellites and space launch vehicles. For the most part Spacecom doesn't have anything of real worth the transfer (other than their commercial operations), they do not operate Israel's military satellites they do not even operate Israel's commercial dual-use earth observing satellites.