rootbrowseIAC-06A3session 11. Space Based AstronomyPapers1. SIM-PlanetQuest Mission: Progress Report and Current Status2. The Herschel / Planck Programme – Technical Challenges for two Science Missions – The Spacecraft3. The GAIA astrometry mission4. Wide field imager technology reference study5. Far infrared interferometer technology reference study6. Dune, the dark universe explorer mission7. XEUS: Payload Accommodation with the Detector Spacecraft8. SIMBOL-X : an Hard X-Ray Formation Flying Mission9. On the Characterization of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources