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Download the report on june 21, 2017, the center for strategic and international studies csis hosted a twopanel event on opportunities emerging from new space technologies, particularly smallscale satellites. The situation in the field of small satellite missions for earth observation has matured in the last 10 years. This book was compiled from those contributions given at the 7th iaa symposium on small satellites for earth observation, may 48, 2009, berlin iaa international academy of astronautics which are representative for the new developments and trends in the area of small satellites for earth observation. New developments and trends ebook written by rainer sandau, hanspeter roeser, arnoldo valenzuela. Earth observation mission news satellite news eoportal. Near term and advanced planning suggest that this trend. A wicks 14th annual aiaausu conference on small satellites 1 ssc0018 advancing small satellite earth observation.
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