10/8/21: Updates

    AGENDA  AND  MINUTES

  1. Updates: 

• VJB paper. Not expected on website until Nov.
• MH paper. Still waiting.
• PT paper. Pub. sent us a proof of the paper which we need to approve by Oct. 12.
• VJB update. 1998 for failures column gives weird result.
• SD update. Working on team leaders, will do proportions by year, hope to publish a short article soon.
• PT update. 
• DB update. More curves that were fitted to data on launch and failure year vs. lifetime.
• Financials. 
• As of 6/25/21, PT paid $400 for FTC and the college has agreed to reimburse him for it after the conference, which is in late October.
• Readings update. I need to delete the previous paper from the server. We need to define a new reading. MH suggested on by LaFond.

2. Reading and discussion:

• Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. Last time we finished it. This time we don't have a new paper to start on.

---------------------------------------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.

3. Background literature update.

• 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?