The dossier contains correspondence, agendas, working documents on the following meetings of the Ad-Hoc Working Group: preparatory meeting, Tokyo, 8-9 February 1996 (including original minutes); preparatory meeting, ESA HQ, 15 December 1995.
The file also includes correspondence and documents on the following sub-working groups: Space Station, Launcher, Telecom (including minutes of the quadrilateral meeting on international joint experiments for satellite HDR communications, held on 14 November 1995 in Maui), Earth Observation, Future Cooperation.
Main topics discussed: manned spaceflights and microgravity (ATV/HTV cooperation), GAMMA project, ATMOS-A1, ALOS satellite, new science missions (LUNAR satellite and moon exploration).
The dossier includes "Fundamental policy of Japan’s space activities", January 1996.

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