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http://dx.doi.org/10.20910/JASE.2016.10.4.59

Study of the U.S. Missile Non-proliferation Policy Applied on Space Launch Vehicles of India and China  

Choe, Nammi (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of Aerospace System Engineering / v.10, no.4, 2016 , pp. 59-66 More about this Journal
Abstract
India and China are capable of developing indigenous space launch vehicles, with the rocket technology transferred from the U.S., Western countries, and the Soviet Union, in the 1950s and 1960s. Barring the early 1990s, both countries are absent in the missile nonproliferation regime, and have no major space cooperation records with the U.S., since the establishment of the Missile Technology Control Regime in 1987. With the advent of the $21^{st}$ century, historic progress has been made in the U.S.-India space cooperation, which includes using Indian launch vehicles to launch U.S.non-commercial satellites. However, the U.S. is skeptical with regards to space cooperation and using Chinese space launch vehicle services. In this paper, we present the U.S. nonproliferation policy applied on launch vehicles of India and China, and different aspects of the policy will be examined to draw implications on Korean space activities.
Keywords
U.S. missile nonproliferation policy; India's space launch vehicle; Chinese space launch vehicle; Missile Technology Control Regime;
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