The dossier contains correspondence and working documents concerning the 11th ESA/Japan Telecom experts meeting held at ESTEC on 13-14 March 1996; report of the meeting of Satellite Communications working group held on 7-9 November 1996 in Oahu, in the frame of Japan/US science, technology and space applications program.
It includes the following presentations "The outline of engineering test satellite – 8", "R&D on S band mobile communications and sound broadcasting systems by geostationary satellite for the next decade", "R&D for GSV", "Promotion of HDR satellite communications experiments between Europe and Japan", "An introduction to ‘gamma’", "On board processing", "High data rate technology", "Status of European efforts in GNSS", "Satellite operations at KSCC", "Joint experiment between ETS-VI on board laser terminal and ESA’s optical ground station", "The ARTEMIS/OICETS inter orbit link experiment".
Relevant subjects: launch of COMETS; Gigabit satellite; MTP digital broadcasting study group; GIBN Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks; HDTV application interoperability experiments.

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