| Acknowledgements | |
| Foreword | |
| Micro/Nanosatellites - The New World | p. 1 |
| Nanotechnology - Tools for the Satellite World | p. 21 |
| The Promises of Nanotechnology: Will They Be kept? | p. 33 |
| Canada's First Microsatellite - An Enabling Low-Cost Technology for Future Space Science and Technology Missions | p. 43 |
| PROBA (Project for On-board Autonomy) | p. 53 |
| SNAP-1 - Design, Construction, Launch and Early Operations Phase Results of a Modular COTS-Based Nano-satellite | p. 69 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 1: New Advances of Nanotechnology | p. 79 |
| Nanosatellite Science Applications | p. 83 |
| Creation of an Information Society by Satellite Communications RandD: the Role of Small Satellites | p. 93 |
| MYRIADE, the CNES Micro-satellite Product Line for Science and Innovation | p. 101 |
| Air Quality Improvement through Micro-Technology | p. 109 |
| Small Satellites in the Future Space Infrastructure | p. 119 |
| Master of Space Studies 2001 Views and Visions | p. 127 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 2: Micro/Nanosatellites - Benefits, Services and Applications | p. 133 |
| A Trajectory to Commercial Microspace | p. 135 |
| Measuring Complexity and Risk of New Small Satellite Endeavors | p. 145 |
| The Future Satellite Business Is Small Satellite Business | p. 157 |
| Market Growth Potential for Small Satellites: An Industry View | p. 165 |
| The COCONUDS Concept: a Low-cost, Distributed Network Approach to Satellite Earth Observation | p. 173 |
| A Microsatellite-based Demonstrator Mission for Agriculture and the Environment | p. 179 |
| Some Problems Specific to Small Satellite Project Financing | p. 185 |
| The CNES Micro-satellite MYRIADE Program as a Laboratory for Innovative Methods of Space Project Management | p. 197 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 3: Market Potential - Big Business versus the Entrepreneur | p. 205 |
| New Propulsive Module for Manosatellites | p. 209 |
| Military Missions for Small Satellite Constellations | p. 219 |
| Pegasus - Past, Present and Future | p. 229 |
| Small Satellites in a Large Launch Vehicle Marketplace: NASA's Strategic Effort to Provide Space Transportation | p. 239 |
| Vega: the European Initiative for Launching Small Satellites | p. 249 |
| Overview of the Russian Launch Possibilities for Small Satellites | p. 257 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 4: Launch and Support Services for Micro/Nanosatellites | p. 267 |
| The Small Satellite Business: Contributions to, and from, Developing Countries | p. 269 |
| SUNSAT to SunSpace: Meeting the Needs of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation | p. 279 |
| From Big LEO Satellite Ventures to Smaller Satellite Systems: Lessons to be Learnt in an Apparently Evanescent Market | p. 289 |
| Small Satellites in Developing Countries - An Integral Part of National Development | p. 299 |
| Prospects for Involvement in Space Activities in Developing Countries via Small Satellites | p. 307 |
| A Microspacecraft Platform for Missions in Earth Orbit and beyond LEO | p. 315 |
| The Brazilian Microsatellite Development Strategy: an Assessment of the Scientific Applications Satellite (SACI) Programme | p. 321 |
| Micro/Nanosatellites as an Enabler of the New Information World | p. 329 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 5: Broader Impacts and Implications | p. 337 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 6, Part 1: Debate: The Business Case for Small Satellites has yet to be made | p. 341 |
| Report on Panel Discussion 6, Part 2: Concluding Panel Discussion: Highlights and Lessons Learned in all Sessions | p. 347 |
| Mission Model Consideration using NEC Advanced Small Satellite Bus | p. 351 |
| SCALE: A Scaleable Wire Boom System | p. 355 |
| A Modular Design Concept For Small Satellites | p. 357 |
| NESS: Using a Microsatellite to Search for and Track Satellites and Asteroids | p. 359 |
| Integrating Robustness Into ST-5 Nano-Satellite Development For Inexpensive Space Missions | p. 361 |
| Small Spacecraft for Space Weather Upstream Monitoring | p. 369 |
| Nano Satellite Propulsion using FEEP Thrusters | p. 373 |
| Angara and the Market for Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) Satellites | p. 377 |
| The WEOS (Whale Ecology Observation Satellite) System and University Education | p. 379 |
| An Overview of the Technology Satellite of the 21st Century (TechSat 21) Program | p. 381 |
| Vision of Fugure Space Systems Based on Recent MEMS and Nano-technology Developments | p. 383 |
| ROCKOT - a Competitive and Reliable Launch Vehicle for Small Satellite | p. 387 |
| Advanced Micro/Nanosatellite Attitude Control Systems (ACS) | p. 389 |
| Small Satellite Development and Future Vision of NASDA | p. 393 |
| The TAKO (Target Collaborativize) Flyer: a New Concept for Future Satellite Servicing | p. 397 |
| Status of Micro- / Nano-Satellites in NASDA | p. 401 |
| Micro Spectrometer and MEMS for Space | p. 403 |
| Air Pollution Monitoring Using a Constellation of Small Satellites | p. 407 |
| Micro/Nano-Technologies for High Performance Spacecraft | p. 411 |
| JetGun Sat "TOPPU" | p. 413 |
| Titech CanSat Project 2000: Report of Sub-orbital Flight and Balloon Experiment | p. 417 |
| Atmospheric Climate Experiment ACE a Constellation of Microsats for Atmospheric Sounding | p. 419 |
| Leonid Meteor Observer in LEO: a University Microsatellite to Observe the 2002 Leonid from Space | p. 423 |
| Appendix | p. 427 |
| The International Space University's Small Satellite Interdisciplinary Survey (ISIS) | p. 429 |
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