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Preamble: RAST (Recent Advances in Space Technologies) Conferences have now become a traditional biennial event with worldwide participation. The third RAST Conference or RAST 2007 will be held again in Istanbul on 14-16 June 2007. As before, it is the mission of the organizers to make RAST 2007 a premier event in space technology developments especially those on the way to near future deployment. In general RAST Conferences are open to all areas of space, but each conference has a different theme. RAST 2007 will carry the theme: SPACE FOR A MORE SECURE WORLD.



Objectives: Space has played a significant role in national defense and security, since the first days of the space age half a century ago. However the dramatic changes in geopolitics in the 1990s and lately, together with developments in the capabilities afforded by space assets, have necessitated a fresh new look at space and security. Policy studies and reports on the subject have been coming out in major space faring nations and organizations including the US and European Union. The new security concepts incorporate threats not only from traditional armed forces of an adversary, but also from suıch sources as organized crime or natural disasters. Space technologies offer ways and means of predicting, mitigating and handling of security issues whatever the primary reason.