CSIS Urges Space Systems Export Control Changes.

Feb 20, 2008

Washington should remove American-made satellites from a list that complicates sales to other nations, and take a number of other steps to help reverse the nation's dwindling dominance of space, according to a new Center for Strategic and International Studies report.

U.S. officials should take steps to revamp the current export control regime, which a CSIS working group has concluded "constricts U.S. engagement and partnership with the rest of the global space community" and also has failed to prevent "the rise of foreign space capabilities, and in some cases has encouraged it."

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