The 20th international symposium on space technology and science was held in Nagaragawa city, Gifu prefecture on May 19-25, 1996, and 401 papers were made public. Out of those, 112 papers were summed up as Volume 2 following the previous Volume 1. As to space transportation, the paper included reports titled as follows: Conceptual study of H-IIA rocket (upgraded H-II rocket); Test flight of the launch vehicle; International cooperation in space transportation; etc. Concerning microgravity science, Recent advances in microgravity research; Use of microgravity environment to investigate the effect of magnetic field on flame shape; etc. Relating to satellite communications and broadcasting, 'Project GENESYS': CRL's R and D project for realizing high data rate satellite communications networks; The Astrolink (sup TM/SM) system; etc. Besides, the paper contained reports on the following fields: lunar and planetary missions and utilization, space science and balloons, earth observations, life science and human presence, international cooperation and space environment, etc


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    Title :

    Proceedings of The Twentieth International Symposium on Space Technology and Science. Volume 2


    Publication date :

    1996


    Size :

    668 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English