[FPSPACE] The modesty of Zenit

[ALLEN THOMSON]

Morris Jones <morrisjones at hotmail.com> wrote:    > Last night, I saw a documentary on Sea Launch on the National Geographic Channel (Australia). The video of the Zenit rollout was excellent, but close-ups of the engines and rear section of the rocket were deliberately 
degraded, or fogged. I find this perplexing. This is hardly classified 
technology, especially when Sea Launch is an international commercial 
project. Any thoughts, people? Is the vehicle just modest about showing its 
bottom? ;-)

   
  Sounds like somebody's lawyers got nervous about the Missile Technology Control Regime. Much of this stuff is "We don't really know what this is about, but better safe than sorry."