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Yes! This is the concept between ISS! The idea that we are regularly sharing launch missions is a great work for international diplomacy.
by smileysteve 10y ago
Yes! This is the concept between ISS! The idea that we are regularly sharing launch missions is a great work for international diplomacy.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> Yes! This is the concept between ISS! Sort of. China is banned by the US government from participating in the ISS (or any other cooperation with NASA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NA...
- logfromblammo 10y agoAll space tech is necessarily dual-use military. I'm certain the concern is that space launch cooperation with PR China will result in unintentional transfer of militarily relevant technologies. Also, China is responsible for the largest single space debris generating event in history, from the intentional destruction of Fengyun-1C in 2007. That kind of thing doesn't matter to the politicians so much, but it was kind of a dick move, and had all the appearances of gratuitous saber-rattling. Space is too important for nationalist dick-measuring contests in LEO when it is already perilously close to Kessler cascade.
- ceejayoz 10y agoThat concern requires pretending (against all evidence) the Chinese haven't thoroughly penetrated US defense contractors' networks and personnel. http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fighter-hacking-idUSL2N0EV0T320130619 http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fighter-hacking-idUSL2N0E... We managed to cooperate with Russia, too. > Space is too important for nationalist dick-measuring contests in LEO... I posit that's exactly what the policy forbidding China from collaborating with NASA is.
- logfromblammo 10y agoNothing good will come of freezing China out of "international" space collaborations.
- ceejayoz 10y agoThat's precisely my point.