1/22/21: Back to the usual agenda

 Agenda and Minutes 


1. Updates. Congratulations to VJB on passing his proposal defense! 

2. PT paper draft discussion.

3. Literature reviews (thanks to VJB): 
Today's paper: A Satellite Mortality Study to Support Space Systems Lifetime Prediction, IEEE Aerospace Conf. Proc. 2013, 10.1109/AERO.2013.6497352, by Fox et al. They use a Kaplan-Meier estimator which we need to learn more about. This paper is worth a more in depth read.
   (In general, the following questions are worth considering for various papers)
       a. What is the source? 
       b. What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper? 
       c. Why is that advance important? 
       d. What important questions arise from the paper for future research? 
       e. What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer? 
       f. What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)? 
       g. What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals? 
       h. Questions from the group? 

4. Reading and discussion: 
    a. For the Magee et al. 2016 reading, we finished up to the 1st full par. on p. 242.
    b. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we read up to "A third industrial revolution?" last time. We plan to continue with that subsection next time on. p. 6.
 


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