Documents concerning works of the ESA/Japan Ad-Hoc Working Group in 1996-1997: agenda of the meeting held in Tokyo, on 5-6 December 1996; joint report of ESA/Japan Ad-Hoc Working Group, 6 December 1996 (including reports of sub-working groups); joint statement on the conclusion of the Ad-Hoc Working Group.
The dossier includes documents and correspondence concerning the following sub-working groups: Space Station (including draft memorandum of understanding and draft agreement in principle between ESA and NASDA on hardware exchange for utilisation of the international space station), Space Transportation (including minutes of the meeting held on 16-17 September 1996 in Tokyo), Application Satellite Technology (including minutes of meetings held on 6 June and 14 October 1996 at ESTEC), Earth Observation - Future Missions (including minutes of the meeting held on 16-18 October 1996 in Tokyo).
Topics discussed, among others: proposal of ESA/NASDA regular meetings, presentation of H-IIA and HOPE-X, status of FESTIP, GAMMA project, Euro-OCTS Archive.

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