[golem14]

"You can't take a rocket to India and you can't manufacturer that rocket in India (Skilset, US based corporation, ITAR) so you can't achieve your savings that way."

Out of curiosity -- can they _fly_ a rocket to India (maybe have a booster return to India instead of a drone ship ? Too far/out of the way ?

That may not help much since stage 2 would still have to be shipped around, which is probably not cost effective, and there might be other regulations that make it infeasible to launch anywhere but in the USA.

[evgen]

As soon as it lands you have violated ITAR, so no.

[InTheArena]

One of the use cases for BFR is a sub-orbital hop. That would probably work for India (depending on orbital dynamics).

With Falcon, no way. The boosters land out at sea, but nowhere near that far out ;-)