Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China

piemcfly writes "Chinese-born physicist Shu Quan-Sheng Monday pleaded guilty before a US court to violating the Arms Export Control Act by illegally exporting American military space know-how to China. The 68-year-old naturalized US citizen, pictured here on his company profile, admitted handing over the design of fueling systems between 2003 and 2007. Also, in 2003 he illegally exported a document with the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Information, Technical Proposal and Budgetary Officer — Design, Supply, Engineering, Fabrication, Testing & Commissioning of 100m3 Liquid Hydrogen Tank and Various Special Cryogenic Pumps, Valves, Filters and Instruments.' This contained the design of liquid hydrogen tanks for space launch vehicles. He also admitted to a third charge of bribing Chinese officials to the tune of some 189,300 dollars for a French space technology firm." Here's the FBI press release regarding Shu's plea.

Comments

The Universe Doesn't Care

[Cynic9]

...who is flying the rocket. Countries can have phallic contests all day long but space exploration needs to be a world-wide effort.

Of course, we will eventually start setting claim to planets and other bodies like we own them. Let's just hope we don't spray paint someone else's territory and get space-lynched.

Re:Industrial espionage

[Toll_Free]

Some of our greatest scientists ever came AFTER WWII, not defectors from Germany.

Big difference, going to a side that literally whooped the FUCK out of your country, Vs. Defecting.

You're doing a HUGE disservice to the people who actually DID defect from oppressive regimes by trying to state the German scientists "defected".

They defected about as much as you or I did, it would appear. They where the spoils of war, and we did ALL we could to get to them to beat the "reds" (commies).

That's all part of that history stuff you talk of.

--Toll_Free