Nobody is forbidding Myanmar to launch their own satellite. After all, the Chinese and the North Koreans pretty much do whatever they want up there as well. But if you cooperate with others to put something up there, it would be very unusual if you wouldn't have to compromise. This includes limits on what purposes the equipment can be used for.
Actually, according to TA, it seems Myanmar's government hasn't quite decided what to do with the thing. It's probably quite low right now on their list of priorities. And the Japanese still have to consider whether to toss it out or not. After all, the thing is up there already (sunk cost fallacy and all that). It seems possible they can work something out.
Why are you discussing the military of Myanmar if you don't at some level agree (with xxpor below) that might solves conflicts even if it doesn't establish right.
If you're so egalitarian as to ask the question, why not go all the way and ask why individual Myanmarese are't negotiating with the USA directly? You inherently privilege the Myanmar military while calling into question the legitimacy of the western democratic governments.
Since we're dealing with geopolitics, genocide, conflict, etc. - what does right have to do with anything? Other than being an entirely hopeless ideal that is discarded immediately in conflict between nations or peoples.
Might dictating outcomes has always been a fact of life. Why would anyone attempt to deny that aspect of living in reality? What good does it do to pretend reality isn't what it is?
Might determining outcomes between nations will never stop being true. Everything else - the UN for example - is merely a very small (often laughable) influence, and at best reduces the brunt of the might factor.
Pick a major country at any point in history. Might is huge part of their equation and there are no exceptions.
The US and China can freely ignore the world, freely ignore the UN, freely ignore all rules, international laws, anything they want to. That's because there is nobody that can do anything about it. That fact of how things actually work merely lessens as you scale downward with nations (as the nation in question gets weaker), it never goes away. Weak countries can pick on weak opponents, see: Armenia vs Azerbaijan. Might always ultimately determines the world, including in defeating Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in WW2. The strongest nations even have the most influence at the UN, so even soft politics is always backed by might.
