EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This proceedings volume includes the available papers presented at the Ninth International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies, November 14-16, 2001, Pasadena, California, USA.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Opening Ceremony.

-Opening Welcome Statement.
-Retrospects and Prospects for ISCOPS.
-Congratulations on the 9th ISCOPS.

-International/National Space Programs.

-The National Space Program of Japan.

-International Students Conference and Competition.

-Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Landing of Spacecraft Using Multiple Images.
-Experiment of Laminar Flow Control With the Use of Luminiscent Paint.
-Experimental and Theoretical Study on Elastic Aeroshells in Supersonic Flow.
-Periodic Orbits in Rotating 2nd Degree and Order Gravity Fields.
-Study of Low-Cost Orbit Determination System for Tethered Satellites.

-Astrodynamics, Guidance and Control.

-Minimum Fuel Trajectories for Sample-Return Mission Using Solar Electric Propulsion.
-Parametric Dynamical Study of a Novel Manipulator.
-Behaviour of Small Restitution Mechanism Under Microgravity Environment.
-An Object Oriented Architecture for Flight Dynamics Mission Support.
-Design and Verification of a Satellite Attitude Control System for Sub-Arcsecond Pointing Stability.
-The Earth Outer Space Traffic Control System Constellation.

-Satellite Communications, Broadcasting and TT&C.

-Sub-Microradian Pointing for Free-Space Optical Communications.

-Satellite Remote Sensing, Meteorology, Small Satellite Systems/Constellations.

-Vegetation Analysis Using Leaf Water Content Index (LWCI) Calculated From SPOT/Vegetation Data.
-Area Determination of Rice Paddy Using Satellite SAR Data.
-Applications of Satellite Data for Agriculture in East Asia.
-Studies of Semi-Arid Grassland Vegetation in Inner Mongolia by Satellite Image and Ground Survey.
-Small Satellites: Continous Improvements in Project Management.

-Manned Space Flight, Space Station and Pacific Space Ports.

-The Rationale for Establishing an International Lunar Base.
-Use of the International Space Station as a Human Exploration Test Bed.

-Materials and Structures.

-Use of Generic Algorithms for Placement on Slender Structures.
-Modal Analysis of LSS: A State of the Art Survey.

-Space Transportation and Propulsion.

-Brief Report of Japan's H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 1.
-Atlas V - The Next Generation of Affordable, Operable, and Reliable Launch Systems.
-A New Era of the Hybrid Rocket.
-Flight Demonstration and a Concept for the Readiness of Fully Reusable Rocket Vehicles.
-Investigation into Reducing the Development Cost of a Personnel Transport.

-Space Debris and Envirnoment.

-Collision Risk Analysis of the CZ-04 Breakup.
-Using Breakup Models and Propagators to Devise Debris Search Strategies in GEO.
-Evaluation of Bumper Shield With Protuberants Under Space Debris Impact.
-Development of Self-Shielding Bumper Against Space Debris.