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REPORT
A Brief History of the AIAA
Emily Springer, AIAA

This year the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) celebrates 75 years of supporting the aerospace industry. AIAA is formed of two societies, the American Rocket Society, which started in 1930, and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, which started in 1932. We use the year in between as our celebration year to make it easy. These two societies were very different in the beginning, but the eventually merged together to form AIAA. Here is an excerpt of the story.

REPORT
Report on Participation in 24th AIAA ICSSC
Masato Takahashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Institute

The 24th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2006) was held from 11th to 14th June 2006 at San Diego Hilton Resort, California. Theauthor fortunately had a precious opportunity to participate in the conference to make atechnical presentation.

Satcommandie & I
Chizuka Fukae
Business Development Division
Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-SAT)

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