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?