9/3/21: Focus on status updates, as a number of things are going on

 1. Updates:

• MH: All payments for the page charges received. However he has no acknowledgement from the conference. Could send a note asking about the current status.
• VJB: will be doing 4 analyses. He is almost done with the first one. He noted https://www.iiis-spring22.org/imcic/website/default.asp?vc=26 which sounds like WMSCI and is the same organization, in essence.
• RS reports that the WMSCI fee is fully paid by your dept. Great!
• PT: Status of video presentation of the paper: he is almost finished with the slides. Length must be 6-8 minutes. He has found a committee for the candidacy exam. 
• Comment on last time's video: https://youtu.be/Pz4ephK-f94 on attenuation bias.
• DB pointed out how different variations in the analysis of deep space vessel lifetimes gives a rather wide spread of different doubling time estimates for increasing lifespans over time. MH suggests filtering as a general concept. Means are more subject to outliers (very long lives, very short lives). Attenuation bias might affect the raw data more than a moving window average.
• Financials. 
• 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 read section 3.2.2 items (3) and (4). So, now we are up to section 3.2.2, item (5), so we can start from 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?