As revised U.S. export control regulations for satellites and related components take effect in November, one lawyer familiar with the effort cautioned that with the changes come complexities and greater chances for companies to run afoul of the new rules.Cinelli was referring to the Obama administration’s overall export control reform effort, which includes a revision of Category 15 of the U.S. Munitions List (USML) that covers satellites and related components. In May, the U.S. State Department published a final rule that moved many items that had previously been on the list to the less-restrictive Commerce Control List. The final rule takes effect Nov. 10.
Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The... More by Jeff Foust
