Meeting 2/23/18

1. Updates on satellite sites:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Catalog_Number does contain the recent Tesla car that was fired into space, showing that not just Earth orbiting satellites are included, since this is in a heliocentric orbit.
- https://celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp (e.g., type in "tesla") and https://celestrak.com/satcat/boxscore.asp (see e.g. graph at bottom): VK notes: It seems like the Satellite catalog has the latest information. I tried "tesla" and it shows up.

I saw this link before as the Wikipedia has it on the references. The planet4598 site uses the Satellite Catalog, which has old satellite catalog file compared to celestrak.com. I downloaded the latest Satellite Catalog from celestrak.com. 
-  There is similar information acrross planet4589 and celestrak.com, not clear which is using data from the other. They use the same base file satcat.txt.
- UCS uses only has active satellites orbiting earth, this seems a unique characteristic if this source.

2. HA added the Start-Up Space document notes to our overall document. 

3. HA plans to provide some notes on http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/successful-test-fire-massive-falcon-heavy-rocket-poised-boost-space-science. Note that that article was to some extent superseded by the actual launch, described e.g. in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster. The car is also now a satellite (of the sun). 

4. DB sent HA spreadsheets with some data for his software engineering student team in the course he is teaching. They can write some software to analyze it if they want. 


5. Arkansas Academy of Sciences meeting will be at ASU this year.
- Discussed publishability of VK's and RD's results so far. We decided that a presentation would be better than a poster for RS to present. 
- A journal paper submittal is due 2 days before the conference. April 4
- Registration and submittals are at http://www.astate.edu/a/ortt/aas/ - Completed registration form, abstract(s), registration fee and membership dues must be received be the deadline of March 11.
- Meeting will be at ASU on April 6-7, 2018
- We need an abstract for Richard so he can register and upload it. We should pass around draafts for us to comment on. Base it on Venkat's and Rohit's reports. 
- We need an outline of a paper so we can start filling it in. For DB to start?
- RS needs some draft slides from Rohit and Venkat including figures, conclusions, statement of research problems.
- Lit review: DB should send HA an email with next steps for the lit review.

7. Here is the list of future potential readings: Send updates to DB:https://thehumanraceintospace.blogspot.com/2018/02/list-of-possible-future-readings.html. 

8. RD plans to present his results at the DB/RB joint lab meetings.