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The regulations are not rocketry/FAA/explosives regulations that the NAR deals with, but rather munitions export regulations. Specifically, guidance systems are
by 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 agoIs 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.