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"You can't take a rocket to India and you can't manufacturer that rocket in India (Skilset, US based corporation, ITAR) so you can't achieve your savings that w
by golem14 8y ago
"You can't take a rocket to India and you can't manufacturer that rocket in India (Skilset, US based corporation, ITAR) so you can't achieve your savings that way."
Out of curiosity -- can they _fly_ a rocket to India (maybe have a booster return to India instead of a drone ship ? Too far/out of the way ?
That may not help much since stage 2 would still have to be shipped around, which is probably not cost effective, and there might be other regulations that make it infeasible to launch anywhere but in the USA.
- InTheArena 8y agoOne of the use cases for BFR is a sub-orbital hop. That would probably work for India (depending on orbital dynamics). With Falcon, no way. The boosters land out at sea, but nowhere near that far out ;-)
- evgen 8y agoAs soon as it lands you have violated ITAR, so no.