Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00081:reg:20:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00081
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 20 (pt 1/7)
Character Range: 131104–134170

20  Category XV—Spacecraft Systems and Associated Equipment
 (a) Spacecraft, including communications satellites and space vehicles, whether designated developmental, experimental, research, or scientific, or having a commercial, civil, or military end‑use, that:
 (1) are specially designed to mitigate effects (for example, scintillation) of or for detection of a nuclear detonation;
 (2) autonomously track ground, airborne, missile, or space objects in real‑time using imaging, infrared, radar, or laser systems;
 (3) conduct signals intelligence (SIGINT) or measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT);
 (4) are specially designed to be used in a constellation or formation that when operated together, in essence or effect, form a virtual satellite (for example, functioning as if one satellite) with the characteristics or functions of other items in paragraph (a);
 (5) are anti‑satellite or anti‑spacecraft (for example, kinetic, RF, laser, charged particle);
 (6) have space‑to‑ground weapons systems (for example, kinetic or directed energy);
 (7) have any of the following electro‑optical remote sensing capabilities or characteristics:
 (i) electro‑optical visible and near infrared (VNIR) (that is, 400nm to 1,000nm) or infrared (that is, greater than 1,000nm to 30,000nm) with less than 40 spectral bands and having a clear aperture greater than 0.35 metres;
 (ii) electro‑optical hyperspectral with 40 spectral bands or more in the VNIR, short‑wavelength infrared (SWIR) (that is, greater than 1,000nm to 2,500nm) or any combination of the aforementioned and having a Ground Sample Distance (GSD) less than 30 metres;
 (iii) electro‑optical hyperspectral with 40 spectral bands or more in the mid‑wavelength infrared (MWIR) (that is, greater than 2,500nm to 5,500nm) having a narrow spectral bandwidth of Δλ less than or equal to 20nm full width at half maximum (FWHM) or having a wide spectral bandwidth with Δλ greater than 20nm FWHM and a GSD less than 200 metres;
 (iv) electro‑optical hyperspectral with 40 spectral bands or more in the long‑wavelength infrared (LWIR) (that is, greater than 5,500nm to 30,000nm) having a narrow spectral bandwidth of Δλ less than or equal to 50nm FWHM or having a wide spectral bandwidth with Δλ greater than 50nm FWHM and a GSD less than 500 metres;
 (8) have radar remote sensing capabilities or characteristics (for example, active electronically scanned array (AESA), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), ultra‑wideband SAR), except those having a centre frequency equal to or greater than 1 GHz but less than or equal to 10 GHz and having a bandwidth less than 300 MHz;
 (9) provide Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) signals;
 (10) provide space‑based logistics, surveillance, assembly, repair, or servicing of any spacecraft (for example, refuelling) and have integrated propulsion other than that required for attitude control;
 (11) provide for sub‑orbital or in‑space human habitation and have integrated propulsion other than that required for attitude