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All of the comments under video say it's not guided but rather stabilized.

by tjomk 6y ago

bronco21016 6y ago
Yeah, pesky .gov has a problem with "guided" projectiles. Stabilized systems rather than guided systems keep you out of legal trouble.
- Animats 6y ago
  That seems to be an urban legend. There are regulations on size and power of model rockets, but not on guidance, at least in the US.[1] [1] https://www.nar.org/find-a-local-club/section-guidebook/laws-regulations/ https://www.nar.org/find-a-local-club/section-guidebook/laws...
  - bri3d 6y ago
    The regulations are not rocketry/FAA/explosives regulations that the NAR deals with, but rather munitions export regulations. Specifically, guidance systems are munitions and therefore are regulated under ITAR Category IV, which means a US resident cannot export the technology by, for example, putting it in a public GitHub repo. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2016-title22-vol1/xml/CFR-2016-title22-vol1-part121.xml https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2016-title22-vol1/xm...
    - handol 6y ago
      Is this missile guidance system a weapon in the eyes of the law? The feds haven't busted down my friends door for contributing yet. https://github.com/MuMech/MechJeb2 https://github.com/MuMech/MechJeb2
      - jvanderbot 6y ago
        > Is this missile guidance system a weapon in the eyes of the law? Yes, it is. > The feds haven't busted down my friends door for contributing yet. That's a video game. There are no restrictions on building guided-missile-shaped pixels. If it were shown that the technology could be deployed in a real missile, it'd be ITAR real quick, and the person (like yourself) who were the one to show that it could be deployed in a real missile could be guilty of providing technical assistance to a foreign agent via a github release and public comment. Not that I think that's the case, but it's really best to tread lightly around these things. You don't want to find out that a bunch of small-time terrorists bought a hobby rocket, and uploaded a kerbal mod, and downed a jet full of tourists or ignited an oil field.

All of the comments under video say it's not guided but rather stabilized.

by tjomk 6y ago

All of the comments under video say it's not guided but rather stabilized.

Yeah, pesky .gov has a problem with "guided" projectiles. Stabilized systems rather than guided systems keep you out of legal trouble.

Animats 6y ago
That seems to be an urban legend. There are regulations on size and power of model rockets, but not on guidance, at least in the US.[1] [1] https://www.nar.org/find-a-local-club/section-guidebook/laws-regulations/ https://www.nar.org/find-a-local-club/section-guidebook/laws...
- bri3d 6y ago
  The regulations are not rocketry/FAA/explosives regulations that the NAR deals with, but rather munitions export regulations. Specifically, guidance systems are munitions and therefore are regulated under ITAR Category IV, which means a US resident cannot export the technology by, for example, putting it in a public GitHub repo. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2016-title22-vol1/xml/CFR-2016-title22-vol1-part121.xml https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2016-title22-vol1/xm...
  - handol 6y ago
    Is this missile guidance system a weapon in the eyes of the law? The feds haven't busted down my friends door for contributing yet. https://github.com/MuMech/MechJeb2 https://github.com/MuMech/MechJeb2
    - jvanderbot 6y ago
      > Is this missile guidance system a weapon in the eyes of the law? Yes, it is. > The feds haven't busted down my friends door for contributing yet. That's a video game. There are no restrictions on building guided-missile-shaped pixels. If it were shown that the technology could be deployed in a real missile, it'd be ITAR real quick, and the person (like yourself) who were the one to show that it could be deployed in a real missile could be guilty of providing technical assistance to a foreign agent via a github release and public comment. Not that I think that's the case, but it's really best to tread lightly around these things. You don't want to find out that a bunch of small-time terrorists bought a hobby rocket, and uploaded a kerbal mod, and downed a jet full of tourists or ignited an oil field.