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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This proceedings volume includes the available papers presented at the Sixth International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS, formerly PISSTA), December 6-8, 1995, Marina del Rey, California, USA.

(Extracted from the Foreword, by Robert H. Jacobs).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword. Robert H. Jacobs.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAMS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS.

-NASA's Space Science Program: Our Outlook for the New Millennium.
-The Japanese Space Program.
-Prospects of China Space Programs in the 21st Century.
-Space Utilization and Beyond.

-INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PRESENTATIONS.

-Design of the Docking Simulator and its Fundamental Experiment.
-Low Altitude Guidance Method for Reentry Vehicle with Vertical Landing Concept.
-Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Transpiration Cooling System by Outer/Inner Flow Coupling.
-Nonlinear H Control and Estimation Optimal H Gain.
-Model Development for Digitally Controlled Large Orbiting Platforms with Co-Located Actuators and Sensors.
-The Emergency Escape Orbit Design for Spacecraft on Launching Phase Out of Atmosphere.

-ADVANCED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS.

-ETS-VI Satellite Communications Experiments.
-Facilities for COMETS Experiments.
-The Optical Inter-Satellite Communications Experiments of OICETS.
-Competition Versus Cooperation in Asia-Pacific Space-Based Telecommunications.
-A Broadband Aeronautical Communications Experiment.

-SPACE TRANSPORTATION AND PROPULSION.

-Present and Future of the J-1 Launch Vehicle.
-The Road from Delta Clipper Experimental to Operational SSTO.
-Tripropellant Combustion Investigation.
-Improved LE-7 Engine: Current Status and Improvement Plan.
-Upgraded H-II (H-IIA) Rocket Program.
-Experimental Results of Launch Environment and Deployment Monitor of ETS-VI.
-Improved Grey Relational Analysis Based Diagnosis Algorithm for a Propulsion System.
-Space Exploration at a Critical Juncture.
-Cooperation in the Field of Space Transportation.
-Effect of Nose Configuration of Spike on Reduction of Pressure Drag in Hypersonic Flow.
-Research of the Light-Weight Engine Technology.
-H-II Transfer Vehicle Study Status.
-Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Jet Impingement on a Jet Tab.
-A New Numerical Method for Instantaneous Fluid Flow with Free Surface.

-MICROGRAVITY SCIENCES.

-Japanese Microgravity Spacelab Experiments.
-Research in Large Isothermal Furnace.
-GaAs Flight Experiment Program in China.
-The Influence of Reduced Gravity on the Crystal Growth of Electronic Materials.
-Growth of Nonlinear-Optical Crystal of alpha-LiIO3 in Space.
-Microgravity Combustion Research in Japan.
-Combustion Experiments on Spacelab Mission MSL-1.
-Protein Crystal Growth Activity in China.
-Potential Candidate Proteins for Crystal Growth in Space: NanH and its Twenty Mutated Forms of Clostridium Perfringens.
-Static and Dynamic Properties of Chain Formation in a Dilute Magnetorheological Fluid.
-The Oscillatory Feature of Thermocapillary Convection.
-In-Situ Observation in Microgravity Experiments.
-Space Utlization Frontiers.

-REMOTE SENSING.

-Use of Japanese and U.S. Meteorological Satellites in Japan.
-The Outline of ATMOS (Atmosphere Observation Satellite) - Japanese Satellite Plan for TRMM Follow-on Mission.
-A Plan for a Global Disaster Observation Satellite System.
-Climatology from Space.
-A Stratagem of Cloud Motion Wind Correlation Coefficient Calculation.

-PACIFIC SPACEPORTS.

-California Spaceport Strategic Plan.
-JRS Research Activities for Space Tourism.
-The ROTON Concept and its Unique Operations.
-How Reusable Space Vehicles Will Open the Space Frontier.
-Study on Airport Services for Space Tourism.
-Designing User-Friendly Civilian Spacecraft.
-Demand for Space Tourism in America and Japan, and its Implications for Future Space Activities.

-MANNED SPACE FLIGHT AND SPACE STATION.

-The International Space Station: Background and Current Status.
-International Space Station Assembly Sequence.
-Japanese Experiment Module Development Status.
-Perspective of JEM Utilization.
-Multinational Team Dynamics Within the International Space Station Program Office.
-Moon and Mars Robotic - Path to Human Presence?
-Development of the Isolation and Hypobaric Chamber Systems.

-BENEFICIAL APPLICATIONS OF SPACE SYSTEMS.

-Global Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Data: Glacier Variations in the Northern Patagonia Icefield.
-Interpretation of SAR Images on Agriculture using JERS-1 and ERS-1 Data.
-Analysis of Japanese Agriculture using Landsat Data: Sugar Beet Analysis in Hokkaido for Agricultural Infraestructure.
-Monitoring Artificial Grassland Using Satellite Data.
-Applications of Space Systems on the Earthquake in the Kobe-Osaka-Awaji Area.
-Flight Evaluation of the DGPS-INS Hybrid Navigation System for Category III Automatic Landing.
-Return to the Moon - A Program to Benefit the Earth.
-Profitable Applications of Satellite Systems to Comprehensive Auto Production System.
-Development of a Deployable Antenna of 10 m Maximum Diameter in L/C/Ka-Bands for Space-VLBI.
-Economics-Based Approaches to Lunar Industrialization.

-ASTRODYNAMICS, GUIDANCE & CONTROL AND SPACE ROBOTIC.

-Control Systems of the LUNAR-A Penetrator.
-Estimation of Spacecraft HITEN's Impact Point on the Moon Based on Surface Images Taken by an Onboard Camera.
-Phase Plane Analysis and Observed Frozen Orbit for the TOPEX/Poseidon Mission.
-Intelligent Control in Rendezvous and Docking.
-Test Facility for Rendezvous and Docking System.
-Attitude Control for Experimental Communications Satellite (ETS-VI) in Non-Geosyncronous Orbit.
-The Result of Attitude Control System Experiment on Engineering Test Satellite-VI.
-The Method of LM-2E Guidance System Design.
-Altitude Control of the Balloon Applied to Venus Exploration.
-Meteorological Satellite CDAS Raw Image Demodulator.
-Experiment on Robotic Motion Using Drop Shaft.
-On-Orbit Servicing Systems and Robots.
-Ground Based Experimental Investigation of Offset Control Strategy for Tethered Systems.
-Research for Redundant Control System.
-Variable Structure with Sliding Mode and Iterative Learning Control for Nonlinear System.

-SPACE STRUCTURES.

-The Synthesis for the Flexible Appendage of Spacecraft Considering Multiple Structural Cases and its Program System ESSOS.
-Calculation and Analysis of Grid Fin Configurations.
-Modal Analysis of Combined Dynamical Systems by the Particular Integral Method.

-SPACE DEBRIS AND ENVIRONMENT.

-Low Velocity Impact Test and its Implications to Object accumulation Model in GEO.
-Debris Collision Hazard from Breakups in the Geosynchronous Ring.
-Motorola's Debris Mitigation Cost Minimization.
-System Investigation of a Laser Radar for Space-Debris Detection.

-SPACE LIFE SCIENCES.

-Remote Sensing and Global Disease.
-Remote Sensing of Ricefields for Monitoring Vectors of Infectious Diseases.
-Remote Sensing and Landscape Epidemiology.
-GIS and Schistosomiasis in China.
-Visuo-Vestibular Sensory Conflicts in Fish under Prolonged Microgravity.
-Early Embryogenesis of Amphibians in Space: AstroNewt for the Space Embryology in IML-2 and SFU.
-An Integrated Engineered Closed/Controlled Ecosystem for a Lunar Base.

-APPENDICES

-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.
-Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
-Science and Technology Series.
-AAS History Series.

-INDEX.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.

OUR REVIEW

Co-sponsored by the American Astronautical Society (AAS), the Japanese Rocket Society (JRS) and the Chinese Society of Astronautics (CSA), this important reunion held at Marina del Rey states the importance that the international cooperation in space will have from the next century on. Many are the ideas contributed in this symposium, and varied the reviewed themes that have been included in this book, some of them written and presented by notorious researchers in the world astronautical arena.

It is obvious that the countries in the eastern Pacific area, above all Japan and China, are well ahead in their particular race to participate in the technology and the benefits that the space programs can contribute. It is likewise obvious that their important incursion in this scientific region transpires an intense desire to cooperate that allows them to advance faster, and at the same time, realize innovative contributions to the international community. The articles included in this volume vary in technical depth although they mean to be the spearhead of the Japanese and Chinese research. There also are contributions by American lecturers that make this work all the more interesting. In a few words, more than a thousand thick pages containing material for almost any type of reader interested in these issues. The next lecture (the seventh), meanwhile, will be held at Nagasaki, Japan, in 1997.