Aerospace & space

Satellites, launchers and their ground segment cross borders at every stage: a part sent to the US for testing, a component bought outside the EU, a launch abroad, a customer who wants your classification before paying. Each of those moves is an export-control question, and often a customs one too.

We have worked with a space agency, satellite manufacturers and operators, and young space companies, from a single classification to a licence application.

When we are called

• A satellite component goes to the US for tests and comes back
• Your payload or platform needs a classification and a licence before delivery
• A customer or launch provider is in a country that needs a closer look
• A rendezvous or in-orbit servicing technology sits on the line between military and dual-use
• The Space Operations Act (LOS) and export control touch the same decision

Work we have done

• A short analysis, for the operator of equipment carried on a satellite, of what an end-of-life de-orbit decision changes under the Space Operations Act and under export control.
• An exportability analysis for China for a space-sensing company, with support on its licence.
• Classification of the product range of a young space company, with a licence analysis.
• A helpline and project support on export control for the security office of a space agency.

Organisations that have worked with us

ESA · Telespazio France · Swissto12 · Novaspace · ClearSpace · OHB · Loft Orbital · Gama · PAVE Space · Groundspace · Orus · Sensing Atmospheric Intelligence

Examples are anonymised and are not linked to the organisations listed.

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