8/27/21: Updates including a new analysis; view video on attenuation bias

      1. Updates:

• MH: The paper was finally resubmitted for the last time.
• PT: Conference asked him to send a video presentation of the paper. He will make a video presentation in powerpoint and send to them. He will send it so us for approval/comments first and at some point we should play it for this meeting, maybe even in time for revisions.
• SD: Showed an analysis of astronauts broken down by gender. 
• Financials. 
• MH paper: He sent them the payment. The appropriate people need to send him their share.
• As of 6/25/21, PT paid $400 for FTC and the college has agreed to reimburse him for it. 

2. Reading and discussion:

• We viewed https://youtu.be/Pz4ephK-f94. Attenuation bias is an issue when there is error in the independent variable but not in the dependent variable. For spacecraft, launch date as an independent variable has little error. But failure date has more error because it is influenced by lifetime, which has some ambiguities (i.e. error) for some spacecraft. 
• Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We got up to section 3.2.2, item (3) last time, and did not read anything more this time, so we can start there next time.

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• 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.

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?

8/20/21: Updates on our activities, etc.

     1. Updates:

• MH paper: RS found a few more edits, so MH will update the paper again accordingly and go from there.
• VJB reviewed a document containing many figures to be made into chapters. 
• PT submitted the consent to publish form for his conference paper. He is starting on the SLR. 
• HA is back in the country. RS is at another meeting.
• DB showed qualitative plots of different initial values and doubling times under linear and log scaling.
• Financial status. 
• MH is about to send AAS the fee, which will trigger those of us who have regular jobs to reimburse him our share.
• As of 6/25/21, PT paid $400 for FTC and the college has agreed to reimburse him for it. 

2. Reading and discussion:

• Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We got up to section 3.2.2, item (3), so we can start there next time.

---------------------------------------Below are some ideas for future discussion----------------------

• 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.

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?

8/13/21: paper statuses, etc.

    1. Updates:

• MH paper: RS has submitted comments already. 
• HA is out of the country but returning very soon.
• PT paper: The FTC conference announced that Springer would publish the proceedings.
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• Financial status. 
• 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 section 3.2.2, item (2), 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.

8/6/21: Readings, etc.

   1. Updates:

• MH paper: RS has no additional comments, so MH will send it next to PT.
• VJB paper: Decision on journal acceptance is done at some point in the future (conference publication is already there).
• PT paper: No news is good news. Conf. is in Oct. 
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• 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. His dept. has in fact now reimbursed this.
• 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 section 3.2.2, 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.