7/30/21: Readings, etc.

  1. Updates:

• MH paper: DB made some edits. It is now on RS's desk. Latest estimate is 7 pages.
• SD is calling in from overseas. Welcome.
• Status of registration and travel fees. 
• As of 6/25/2021, RS has paid $640 for WMSCI and applied for reimbursement from his dept. which has agreed to reimburse him for it. 
• As of 6/25/21, PT paid $400 for FTC and the college has agreed to reimburse him for it. 
• Regarding MH and AAS, the editor's email states, 
• Please consider this notification as an invoice for your page charges. The total of $300 for your manuscript is the number of print pages (6) x $50.  However, if the number of document pages increases while you are making the required changes, please add $50 for each additional page to your $300.  We are unable to accept P.O. numbers or credit cards, so please make a single check for the manuscript [...]
• Payment of $300 and the electronic copy of your manuscript are due by August 31.  Contingent on receipt of your manuscript’s $300 and uploading of the electronic copy to this site, your manuscript will appear in the next volume of the Journal [...]

2. Background literature update.

• Https://gizmodo.com/the-last-images-from-doomed-space-probes-1847100494
• Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as  at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.
• For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
  

What is the source?
What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper? 
Why is that advance important?
What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer? 
What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)? 
What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
Questions from the group?

3. Reading and discussion:

• Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We got up to the paragraph preceding eq. 3 on p. 29, so we can start there next time.
• We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.
• MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
• MH suggests Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.