In article . com,
wrote:
...says that it launched "overcoming a mechanical problem
with the Russian-built erector on its floating launch pad". This
hardly seems embarassing enough to require a news blackout, nor
something that ITAR would be concerned with.

There is basically no such thing as an issue too trivial for ITAR to be
concerned with. The folks who enforce the ITAR rules make no pretense
of being rational.
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