Official issues: correspondence, agenda, general briefing note, draft summary record, list of participants, reports and participants of working groups (Earth Observation, Telecommunications, Space Science, Space Experiment, Space Transportation, Product Assurance, Hope/Hermes, Network Operations, Technologies, General Affairs).
The file contains correspondence concerning the organisation of the meeting and concerning each Working Group.
Relevant subjects discussed: areas of cooperation between ESA and Japan; Astronauts Working Group; cooperation on JERS-1 and ERS-1; cooperation on ADEOS/ERS-II; OICET/ARTEMIS experiment; Informal Working Group (IWG) on Japan; Hope/Hermes meeting; Frequency Working Group.
Working papers include: reorganisation of NASDA; current status of MITI program (EO-ICWG19); agreement to collaborate for an experimental optical link between the NASDA satellite OICETS and the ESA satellite ARTEMIS; draft memorandum of understanding between ESA and NASDA concerning the optical link experiment between ARTEMIS (ESA) and OICETS (NASDA); status of ESA programmes since the 17th annual meeting.

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