# Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items (Recast), Division [9A004]: 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:


NB:
SEE ALSO 9A104.
a..Space launch vehicles;
b.."Spacecraft";
N.B.For “sub-orbital craft”, see 9A004.h.
c.."Spacecraft buses";
d.."Spacecraft mission equipment" incorporating items specified in 3A001.b.1.a.4., 3A002.g., 5A001.a.1., 5A001.b.3., 5A002.c., 5A002.e., 6A002.a.1., 6A002.a.2., 6A002.b., 6A002.d., 6A003.b., 6A004.c., 6A004.e., 6A008.d., 6A008.e., 6A008.k., 6A008.l. or 9A010.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:
9A004.e.1. includes bus data management, storage, and processing.
2..Payload data handling; or
Note:
9A004.e.2. includes management, storage, and processing of “spacecraft mission equipment” data.
3..Attitude and orbit control;
Note:
9A004.e.3. includes sensing and actuation to determine and control the position and orientation of a “spacecraft”.
NB:
For equipment specially designed for military use, SEE MILITARY GOODS CONTROLS.
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 9A004.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".

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/428/annex/I/division/11/division/1/division/9A004 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-428/annex-I/division-11/division-1/division-9A004
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.