In answer to your question concerning the quotes I read earlier, I have one very important point for clarification. What I'm about to quote again is not a national U.S. security law. In 1992, the U.S. adopted something called the U.S. Land Remote Sensing Policy Act, just as we, in 2005, adopted the Remote Sensing Space Systems Act. In order to implement the act, governments usually pass regulations that go into more of the minutiae of the licence details, etc., so what I'm reading is a clause from the latest set of the federal register, Department of Commerce, the regulations to the licensing of private land remote sensing space systems final rule.
Paragraph 960.2(a), under the scope of the act, states:
The Act and the regulations in this part apply to any person subject to the jurisdiction or control of the United States who operates or proposes to operate a private remote sensing space system, either directly or through an affiliate or subsidiary, and/or establishes substantial connections with the United States regarding the operation of a private remote sensing system.
Then there is a list of clauses as to what could be taken into account to figure out whether or not there is substantial connection with the United States.
I just want that to be made clear.