Conservationists (or anyone else who objects) will have it easy. Interplanetary missions are sensitive to timing. All you have to do is disrupt the launch schedule for a few weeks, then boom, it's another few years before they can even try again.
The United States and the West is not the world. Maybe you can file a couple of lawsuits and get an injunction against a US launch, but try that in China and the best case scenario for you is that nothing happens to you, and the scenarios get progressively more, ah, "interesting" for you from there.
jerf|9 years ago