EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This proceedings volume includes the available papers presented at the Seventh International Space Conference of Pacific-Basin Societies, July 15-18, 1997, Nagasaki, Japan. The theme was "Space Cooperation into the 21st Century". The opening and international sessions were covered by senior government and industry speakers from Japan, China and the United States. There were nearly 100 papers submitted and accepted for presentation at the eight technical sessions. The technical session topics included: space communications; space transportation and propulsion; space science and missions; beneficial applications of space systems (including remote sensing, microgravity, etc.); manned space flight; Space Station and Pacific Space Port; astrodynamics; guidance and control (including space robotics and ground operations); large and/or flexible space structures; and space debris and environment.

(Extracted from the Foreword and Preface)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword. Robert H. Jacobs.

-Preface. Peter M. Bainum; Gayle L. May.

-INTRODUCTION.

-Opening Ceremony Addresses.

-SPECIAL LECTURE.

-Microgravity Research and Explotation.

-NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS.

-Development Plan of Long March Launch Vehicles.
-NASA - A Look to the Future.
-The Japanese Space Program.

-INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CONFERENCE AND COMPETITION.

-Numerical and Experimental Study on Precompression Effect for Hypersonic Vehicle.
-A Tether Based Method for Capturing In-Orbit Objects.
-The Simplest Tether Control Law in a Small Satellite.
-Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Re-entry Flow.
-Numerical Analysis of Heatshield Erosion in a Dusty Martian Atmosphere.
-Analysis on Deployment Control of Tethered Subsatellite System in the Effect of Rotational Field.
-Optimal Trajectory Design for Rest-to-Rest Singular Optimal Control Problems by Using Integral Equations.

-SPACE COMMUNICATIONS.

-Development of JEM Interorbit Communication System.
-Ka-band Portable Terminal for the Regenerative Transponder on Comets Satellite.
-Torus-Reflector Antenna for Comets Mobile Terminal.
-OICETS Program: A Major Technical Challenge for Optical Inter-Orbit Communication.
-ATM Transmission Perfomance Over the Satellite Links.
-Results in Space Laser Communications Demonstration Using ETS-VI Satellite.

-SPACE TRANSPORTATION AND PROPULSION.

-Cost Estimation for Launch Vehicles.
-Delta-III Reaches Out to the Commercial Market.
-A New Low-Cost Development Approach for Advanced Future Rocket Engine Systems.
-H-IIA Development Status.
-Throttling Dynamic Response of LH2 Rocket Engine for Vertical Landing Rocket Vehicle.
-Development Study on ATREX Engine for Future Spaceplane.
-Development Study on Precooler for ATREX Engine.
-The Investigation Status of NASDA RLV System.
-The Steady and Transient State Simulation of Unified Bipropellant Propulsion Systems of Satellites.
-A Newly Development 5 Newton Hydrazine Catalytic Engine.
-Thermal Control of Propulsion System of SFU.

-SPACE SCIENCE AND MISSIONS.

-HALCA, A Scientific satellite for Space VLBI.
-Outline of the Experimental Lunar Lander in SELENE Project.
-Scientific Objectives of SELENE Mission.
-System Design of SELENE.
-Mars Exploration Program at JPL: The 1996 Missions.
-The Mars Pathfinder Mission.
-Mars Global Surveyor: On the Way to Mars.
-Planet-B: Study of Martian Upper Atmosphere and its Interaction With the Solar Wind.
-Astro-E, X-Ray Astronomy Satellite.
-Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System.

-BENEFICIAL APPLICATIONS OF SPACE SYSTEMS.

-Testing the Equivalence Principle in Space: The MiniSTEP Mission.
-Application of TDICCD on Real-Time Earth Observation Satellite.
-Advanced Land Observing Satellite and its Payloads.
-Measurement of Atomic Oxygen With ETS-7 Spacecraft Onboard Monitor.
-The Environmental Monitoring on Mt. Pinatubo Area in the Philippines Using Remote Sensing Data.
-Deformation of Iwo-Jima Volcano Detected by JERS-1 SAR Interferometry.
-Early Utilization of JEM Exposed Facility.
-Electronics Applications in Programmable Multiple Zone and Power Shifting Integrated Furnace Piggybacked on Chinese Recoverable Satellite.
-Solution/Protein Crystal Growth Facility.
-Surface Tension Driven Convection in Microgravity.
-Electrostatic Levitation Technique for Thermophysical Property Measurements of Molten Materials on Earth and in Space.
-Space Crystal Growth From Solution.
-Preliminary Study of Crystal Growth of Compound Semiconductors in Microgravity.
-Results of Diamond Film Growth Experiments Using Plasma CVD Method in Space.

-MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, SPACE STATION AND PACIFIC SPACE PORT.

-Bridging the Value Gap: A Discussion About Offsets.
-The California Highway to Space Program.
-The Kodiak Launch Complex. Pacific Spaceport for the 21st Century.
-International Space Station: Moving to Flight.
-Presurized Environment Control of Japanese Experiment Module.
-JEM EVA Design Verification Using Weightless Environment Simulation Test.
-A Study Scenario and Technology for Lunar Resource Utilization.
-Japan's Activities on CELSS in Space.
-A Common Cost Target of Space Transportation for Space Tourism and Space Energy Development.
-The JRS Space Tourism Study Program Phase 2.
-Pilot Procedures for Kankoh-Maru Operations.
-Orbital Considerations on Kankoh-Maru Rendezvous Operations.

-ASTRODYNAMICS, GUIDANCE AND CONTROL.

-Flight Data Analysis for the Integrated Navigation of ALFLEX.
-Flight Control System of HOPE-X.
-Dynamic Behaviour of Tumble Orbit Transfer.
-Automated Rendezvous Docking System of Engineering Test Satellite VII.
-Vision Based Motion Estimation Relative to Unknown Terrain.
-On-the Ground Verification of Autonomous Imaging of Phobos/Deimos From a Mars Orbiting Spin-Stabilized Spacecraft.
-Spacecraft's-Structure-Adaptive Extraction of Safe Region Fromma Digital Elevation Map.
-Orbit Estimation of Deep Space Mission by Using Delta VLBI and Radiometric Measurements.
-The Automatic Ground Test System for Satellite's Attitude and Orbit Control System.
-Attitude Control System Reconfiguration in Case of Failures of a Three-Axis Stabilized Remote Sensing Satellite.
-Effect of Slewing Maneuvers on Controlled Dynamics of Flexible Space Platforms.
-Attitude Control of the LUNAR-A Penetrator System and its Fligth Test.
-Torque Unit Manipulator Driven by Control Moment Gyros.
-Estimation of Nutation Divergence of Spinning Spacecraft With Liquid Tanks.
-A Magnetic Libration Control Scheme for Gravity-Gradient Stabilized Small Satellite.
-International Space Station Operations: A Preview.

-LARGE AND/OR FLEXIBLE SPACE STRUCTURES.

-Mesomechanics of High-D.O.F. Beam-Like Trusses.
-Development of a Vibration Isolator for Inter-Satellite Laser Communications.
-Thermal Analysis of Re-entry Vehicle Strcuture.
-Motion Control of a Retrieving Tether and its Experiment on a Rotating Table.
-Simultaneous Optimization of the Orbit and the Subsatellite Swing for a Tethered System.

-SPACE DEBRIS AND ENVIRONMENT.

-Current Space Debris Research in the U.S. Department of Defense.
-Fragments Creation Via Impact at Low Speed.
-Study of Hypervelocity Impact Testing With Shaped Charge.
-Introduction of Two-Stage Light Gas Gun in SVBL and its Perfomance Test.
-Hydrocode Simulation for the JEM Pressurized Module Structure Perfomance for Space Debris Impact.
-SFU Micrometeoroid and Space Debris Impact Archive.
-Collision Probability Analyses for Earth Orbiting Satellites.

-Appendices

-Indexes.