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This Guidebook provides an overview for spacecraft platform (system), subsystem, and component (including payload) developers with spacecraft plug-and-play architectures to promote rapid design, fabrication, integration, and test. Included is an introduction to SPA, providing an informative reference for the uninitiated reader. It also includes a summary of the SPA standards. The standard user is directed to the SPA standards for detailed requirements. In cases where material in this document differs from a SPA standard, the standard will take precedence.