Annexes to SEC(2011)381 - Impact Assessment Report - Executive Summary

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dossier SEC(2011)381 - Impact Assessment Report - Executive Summary.
document SEC(2011)381 EN
date April  4, 2011
Agreement signed in 1998 between 15 International Partners. The ISS is managed by ESA (Europe), NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), CSA (Canada) and JAXA (Japan).

7Low Earth Orbit (LEO), generally considered to be an orbit at an altitude of 400 to 1000 km.

8The ISS partnership is based on a non-exchange of funds; any contribution to the ISS is in-kind, providing exchange possibilities for flight opportunities, hardware and services.

9“Space exploration and innovation, industrial competitiveness and technology advance”, Workshop conclusions and recommendations, 29-30 April 2010, Harwell (UK);
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/esp/conferences_space_en.htm.

10“Space exploration and innovation, industrial competitiveness and technology advance”, Workshop conclusions and recommendations, 29-30 April 2010, Harwell (UK);
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/esp/conferences_space_en.htm.

11Data provided by the European Space Agency.

12Jerome Schnee, The Economic Impact of the US Space Programme, Rutgers University,

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