Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech
Student, Drone and Rockets, Aspiring Engineer
I was curious if GPS way point missions on a rocket with a built in active stabilization system would fall under a "Point to Point based guidance" legally. I assume that point to point based guidance refers to a rocket actively orienting itself to a target with the intent to hit it. In my case I was interested in horizontal translation minitours, with no intent of hitting a target, rather just letting a rocket follow a GPS waypoint on the way down, and possibly on the way up to have more accurate recovery in a field. On the topic of Point to Point based guidance, it was hard to find much legal information. Lets say this does still fall under Point to Point based guidance. All I could find is restrictions on export control under ITAR, so assuming someone built a point to point based guidance system from a model rocket without any explosives or warheads, would it be legal as long as the details and photo of the system are kept within the U.S. and never shared?