Official issues: programme, agenda, lists of participants, minutes of the Working Groups (General Affairs, Earth Observation, Space Science, Telecommunications, Space Transportation, Space Station and Space Experiment, Network Operations).
Main topics discussed: Space and R&D technology policy; staff exchange; ERS/JERS-1; Envisat, ADEOS-II, ALOS; ESA and ISAS activities; cooperation on ETS VII; MELFI development; ISPR manufacturing; network status.
Working papers: ESA programmes since the 22nd ESA/Japan annual meeting and future plans.
The dossier contains general correspondence on the organisation and management of the meeting; internal correspondence; documents concerning working groups activities (VIABLE meeting in Paris; JEG – GAMMA project), in particular General Affairs Working Group (presentations on NASDA Public Relation activities, on space technology in an integrated European strategy; ESA/NASDA staff exchange programme; NASDA overseas research program; informal proposal to reflect on the evolution of ESA/Japan annual meetings; MISTER Management Information System for Technology R&D).

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