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2014-05-04 International-UN-NGOs
Thought's to consider before running to produce Russa's RD-180 Rocket Motor in the USA
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Posted by 3dc 2014-05-04 12:46|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Here's a fun fact for ya to consider if you're going to throw around terms like "man rated:"

* The shuttle was never man rated.

* The Atlas, Titan, and Saturn rockets used in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo weren't man-rated by modern regulatory definitions of the term.

* Only by writing the regulations to conform to the rocket could the Ares 1 have even remotely been considered man-rated. Same for the Ares IV. Their thrust termination systems would be problematic.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-04 15:12||   2014-05-04 15:12|| Front Page Top

#2 An expert got back to me on the WTO question
There will be no WTO involvement, national security is specifically exempted from WTO review. Article XXI: the security exception in states that a country can not be stopped from taking any action it considers necessary to protect its essential security interests; actions "relating to the traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war and such traffic in other goods and materials as is carried on directly for the purpose of supplying a military establishment (or) taken in time of war or other emergency in international relations." The reality of the situation is NPO Energomash has ULA by the you know what while at the same the US Defense Department has NPO Energomash in a huge bind. If the US DoD ever decides to throw ULA under the bus Energomash is in big trouble.

http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/gatt_ai_e/art21_e.pdf
Posted by 3dc 2014-05-04 15:49||   2014-05-04 15:49|| Front Page Top

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