0191-9067/85 $3.00 + .00 Copyright ® 1985 SUNSAT Energy Council INTRODUCTION This issue of Space Solar Power Review contains most of the papers presented at the 3rd ISAS Space Energy Symposium held on March 26, 1984. As the title of the meeting suggests, the symposium is sponsored and held regularly by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. The presentations were made in Japanese, but the proceedings were written in English for the convenience of overseas colleagues. First of all, on behalf of the contributors and the symposium coordinators, I would like to express our appreciation to Dr. Peter Glaser and Prof. John Freeman for the kind invitation to publish the papers more completely in the Space Solar Power Review. Some authors have taken advantage of this opportunity to rewrite their papers which were too condensed in the limited pages for inclusion in the original proceedings. The efforts of Prof. Freeman to overcome the difficulty of written communication with many of the authors through improvements of their manuscripts are especially acknowledged. The 3rd Symposium consisted of three sessions: space station, spacecraft power system, and solar power satellite, but the space station session dominated the others in the number of papers presented. Obviously the space station is considered to be the most important step for energy related research in space. Fortunately, the symposium is attracting the interest of more researchers in Japan every year and the papers represent the activities in our country. In this sense, it is becoming a regular opportunity for information exchange. I believe this issue expands the opportunity to an international scale. Prof. Makoto Nagatomo Space Power System Section Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
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