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by bunabhucan 962 days ago
You can. You just can't legally do it in Texas. Maybe SpaceY will be based in North Korea or somewhere to escape the burdensome regulatory regime in the USA.
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Countries with less burdensome rules are subject to ITAR restrictions.
He could fund a new company elsewhere in the world and start from scratch, perhaps.

But even if he was super-careful about ensuring that restricted information wasn't shared with the new company, I'm sure his political enemies would find ways to have him locked up if he tried that...

Or just launch from a barge in the middle of the ocean or some uninhabited atoll.
Maximum punishment for a launch failure in NK is a firing squad.