Correspondence and papers from a folder labelled, 'ESRO communique'. Material comprises ESRO publications and reports.
In 1964, the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO), a new international organisation came into being. ESRO was formed out of a number of smaller initiatives including COPERS and CERN (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire/European Organisation for Nuclear Research), known as (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). ESRO was founded by 10 European nations with the intention of jointly pursuing scientific research in space. ESRO was merged with European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) in 1975 to form the European Space Agency. In the final years before the formation of ESA, the European Space Agency, ESRO began a programme in the field of telecommunications. Consequently, ESA is not a mainly pure science focused entity but concentrates on telecommunications, earth observation and other application motivated activities.
Papers includes: copies of the 'ESRO Bulletin' magazine; ESRO news releases; ESRO Space Probe Division report, 'Experiments and Orbits of the I. M. P. Series', (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform series of NASA); information on the 'ESRO/ELDO Space Documentation Service', (ELDO is the European Launcher Development Organization); National Space Science Data Centre leaflet; ELDO/ESRO Scientific and Technical Review; Advance Study Institute and ESRO Summer School programmes; information on the ESRO/ELDO Space Documentation Service Standard Profiles; ESRO/ELDO Space Documentation Service Standard Profiles No. 4, 'Time Measurement'.