An agreement for a United Arab Emirates’ #lunar rover to fly on China’s #Chang’e-7 lunar mission has apparently been hit by U.S. export control rules: https://spacenews.com/china-loses-uae-as-partner-for-change-7-lunar-south-pole-mission - #China and the #UAE had signed a memorandum of understanding in September 2022 for the Rashid II rover to fly on lander of the multi-spacecraft Chang’e-7 mission but that agreement has fallen foul of the U.S. government’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (#ITAR).

An agreement for a United Arab Emirates’ #lunar rover to fly on China’s #Chang’e-7 lunar mission has apparently been hit by U.S. export control rules: https://spacenews.com/china-loses-uae-as-partner-for-change-7-lunar-south-pole-mission - #China and the #UAE signed a memorandum of understanding in September 2022 for the Rashid II rover to fly on lander of the multi-spacecraft Chang’e-7 mission but that agreement has fallen foul of the U.S. government’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (#ITAR).

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All are welcome. All work is published as it is created and is free from #ITAR and #EAR.

A code of conduct is published and enforced.

Project is fully funded through Phase 2.

The #propulsion has flown twice before, but we are using the engines in larger arrays, which will require some careful work.

2/ Meanwhile, most of the #HLV rockets in development use large engines, ie, #BE4 & #Vulcain

Perhaps @spacex could sell the #SpaceXRaptor2 to launch providers to enable reuse

@sciguyspace wrote earlier that #Raptor production is now at 1 engine per day and may be ready to meet demand from other #HLV launch providers as #ITAR permits

Read Eric's reporting on Raptor production
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/