ESA Bulletin Nr. 89

The Ministerial Meeting

• Towards a NEW Industrial Policy - The ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level on 4 March 1997

• Resolution on the European Space Agency's industrial policy

• Resolution on the Review of the Agency's System for calculating the Scale of Contributions for the Mandatory Activities

• Ariane-5: Learning from Flight 501 and Preparing for 502 (J. de Dalmau & J. Gigou)

• Capsule ARD - Essai en vol de la phase terminale de la mission (C. Cazaux & B. Tatry)

• The Monitoring of Gaseous Contaminants in Spacecraft Cabin Atmospheres (G.B.T. Tan, C.J. Savage & H. Bittner)

• The ATV Rendezvous Pre-development (ARP) Project (M. Cislaghi, M. Lellouch & J.M. Pairot)

• Producing the X-Ray Mirrors for ESA's XMM Spacecraft (D. de Chambure, R. Lainé, K. van Katwijk, J. van Casteren & P. Glaude)

• The Evolution of ESA's Spacecraft Control Systems (A. Baldi, M. Jones, J.F. Kaufeler and P. Maigné)

• On-Board Training and Operational Support Tools Applying Web Technologies (J. Auferil & L. Bessone)

• Serving the Earth-Observation Community: The CEOS Dossier (L. Fusco, S.G. Ansari, B. Bizzarri)

• International Cooperation in Space - Developing New Approaches (G. Gibbs, I. Pryke)

• Use of Space Technologies for Major-Risk (G. Naja)

• Focus Earth: ERS Watches Mount Pinatubo (J. Lichtenegger, G. Calabresi)

• Programmes under Development and Operations

• In Brief

• Publications