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9.A.4.Space launch vehicles, "spacecraft", "spacecraft buses", "spacecraft mission equipment", "spacecraft" on-board systems or equipment, terrestrial equipment, air-launch platforms and "sub-orbital craft", as follows:

List
Wassenaar Arrangement – List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies – WA-LIST (25) 1
Corresponding EU entry
9A004
a. Space launch vehicles;
b. "Spacecraft";
N.B. For "sub-orbital craft", see 9.A.4.h.
c. "Spacecraft buses";
d. "Spacecraft mission equipment" incorporating items specified in 3.A.1.b.1.a.4., 3.A.2.g., 5.A.1.a.1., 5.A.1.b.3., 5.A.2.c., 5.A.2.e., 6.A.2.a.1., 6.A.2.a.2., 6.A.2.b., 6.A.2.d., 6.A.3.b., 6.A.4.c., 6.A.4.e., 6.A.8.d., 6.A.8.e., 6.A.8.k., 6.A.8.l. or 9.A.10.c.;
e. On-board systems or equipment, specially designed for "spacecraft" and having any of the following functions:
1. Command and telemetry data handling;
Note 9.A.4.e.1. includes bus data management, storage, and processing.
2. Payload data handling; or
Note 9.A.4.e.2. includes management, storage, and processing of "spacecraft mission equipment" data.
3. Attitude and orbit control;
Note 9.A.4.e.3. includes sensing and actuation to determine and control the position and orientation of a "spacecraft".
N.B. For equipment specially designed for military use, see ML11.c.
f. Terrestrial equipment specially designed for "spacecraft", as follows:
1. Telemetry and telecommand equipment specially designed for any of the following data processing functions:
a. Telemetry data processing of frame synchronisation and error corrections, for monitoring of operational status (also known as health and safe status) of the "spacecraft bus"; or
b. Command data processing for formatting command data being sent to the "spacecraft" to control the "spacecraft bus";
2. Simulators specially designed for 'verification of operational procedures' of "spacecraft";
Technical Note
For the purposes of 9.A.4.f.2., 'verification of operational procedures' is any of the following:
1. Command sequence confirmation;
2. Operational training;
3. Operational rehearsals; or
4. Operational analysis.
g. "Aircraft" specially designed or modified to be air-launch platforms for space launch vehicles or "sub-orbital craft";
h. "Sub-orbital craft".