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If you're interested in the US market you have to play by these rules. And almost everyone is.

If you're willing to forgo the US market you can jurisdiction shop... though I'd expect the Europeans won't be too far behind.

It's also not a really high bar. Most sats are in a regime where this happens naturally or already have propulsion. It's mostly going to bother SSO birds, and most of them are government owned anyway.




Got ya. I guess I was thinking of a "Delta-V" (a book) type of scenario, where space exploration becomes conducted in space, and regulation from Earth get circumvented in order to achieve a much bigger outcome in the orbit and beyond.

I guess if indeed it's not a big deal though, then probably not an issue to worry about. Thank you for your answer!




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