China Releases Commercial Launch Vehicle Rules
Chinese OS-M commercial rocket (Credit: OneSpace)
SpaceNews reports that the Chinese government has released a set of rules for its growing commercial launch sector.
The document outlines rules for the research, development, testing of launch vehicles, safety, confidentiality and export control, interaction with launch sites, dealing with propellants, as well as listing supporting laws and regulations for China’s space activities.
The rules also clarify what qualifications are required by commercial aerospace enterprises, the scope of business, as well as what support may be obtained from the government, and underlines the role of the civil-military integration national strategy in fostering development in the sector.
The regulations (Chinese) were jointly developed by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), which oversees the country’s space activities, and the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission and announced June 10.
The formulation of guidelines has largely been a top-down process, with no indication of involvement of commercial space actors. A wider, first national space law has been included in the legislative plan of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, and could be introduced before 2023.
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The first rule of China’s Commercial Launch Vehicle Rules is “There are no rules!”
no, the first rule is, the communist party is always right.
The second rule is, when the communist party is wrong, see rule 1.
The third rule is, if you do not follow these 2, then your family pays for the bullet to kill you with.
Then why is your house filled with Chinese products you hypocrite.
In the world-is-flat economy any bellyaching about totalitarianism and oligarchy is much like those “good Germans” who did not really support the Nazis.
Actually, that was an inside joke after the war…..they were almost all in on it, all agreed to it, and all paid for it in the end. You want to wag your finger but still support it with your greed for cheap consumer items.
Like always, you continue to lie.
Our house is not. I have purposely worked hard to buy ANYTHING except from China.
In some cases, we could not avoid it, but, that does not mean that I did not work at it.
Sinophobe then. I am not lying of course, it is your gang that lies like the rest of us breathe. If you “work hard” at not buying Chinese then you are a very special snowflake.