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Industry and large organisations recognize the value of VSEs, i.e. enterprises, organisations (e.g. government agency, non-profit organization), projects or departments with up to 25 people, in contributing with emerging new technology that bigger organisations cannot use them as easily nor incorporate them in their solutions as fast. But often these VSEs are not ready to comply with the requirements for space projects. But, Space-VSEs could demonstrate the quality of their processes in a stepwise approach to participate to space projects. This document establishes a common framework for software lifecycle processes for Space-VSEs developing or maintaining software for the space domain. This document is targeted at acquirers of space systems and software and services and for small suppliers, developers, managers, and quality assurance managers of software in the space domain. This document provides the specifications of 3 space profiles for VSEs through a set of development and organisational processes. This document adds specifications to the software Basic profile specifications, defined in ISO/IEC 29110-4-1, and to the software Organisational Management profile specifications, defined in ISO/IEC 29110-4-2. This document provides a process assessment model and a maturity model for the process quality growth demonstration of Space-VSEs. The document may also be used by a single party through a self-imposed set of processes. This document does not: - detail the processes in terms of methods or procedures required to meet the requirements and outcomes of a process. - detail documentation in terms of name, format, explicit content and recording media. - prescribe a specific system or software life cycle model, development methodology, model or technique.