ed kyle wrote:
Craig Fink wrote:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12319764/
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NASA keeps mum on space robot's failure
DART report considered too sensitive for public release

Mr. Oberg reported that "

In DART's case, the ITAR concerns may be connected with the use
of a navigation device produced by the British-based Surrey Space
Centre, which sold a imilar version of the device to the Chinese for
use in a recent space probe.... sources have told MSNBC.com that
the case may have sparked a criminal investigation."

A criminal investigation in Britain would not have anything to do with
ITAR, so its a bull. Not even if it was a device that contained
technology they got from US under an ITAR excemption. Except that by
lots of evidence, especially statements by Surrey, they don't have such
excempted technology and are EXTREMELY happy to keep things that way.


Orbital Sciences built DART. Remember when the Feds raided
Orbital Sciences offices in Arizona a year or so ago?


Do you remember the stated reason?

- Ed Kyle