AGENDA AND MINUTES
Grand Canyon: How is this *not* relevant to other planets?
Wait... maybe it could be?
1. Updates:
- Socialize before the 3:00 seminar if you like! There will be light refreshments.
- PT: Dissertation proposal - elevator speech.
- MH:
- HA: OAS says we could submit excerpt to thespacereview.com. Or we could do an updated S-curve figure in early 2023 with 2022 data and submit there?
- DB: 11th Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics (SSCET) will be on Friday, September 16th in Little Rock, in the UALR EIT building. DB will list everyone as co-presenters.
- RS: WMSCI paper - will it be promoted to JSCI? It's looking likely but not certain yet.
- Recent space activities?
- Here is the lunar
calendar for 2022. This is a new potential hiccup in
developing a Moore's law for deep space vessel lifetimes. No news this week?
- Launched: CAPSTONE, a
12-unit CubeSat, lunar orbiter with 9-month planned lifetime, launched
after delays. Launch vehicle Lunar Photon may also be a separate
independent deep space vessel.
- Future: Artemis 1 mission (uses expendable launch vehicle;
to launch "no earlier than" Aug."as of July 2022, Artemis 1 is expected to be launched between 29 August and 6 September." - Wikipedia. - Payload: Orion capsule with no crew, will not be reused, and short lifetime of 25 days ending in reentry and recovery
- Contents: instruments, etc.
- Payloads: Multiple CubeSats including JAXA's OMOTENASHI
- Future: CLPS-1 (Peregrine Mission One), launching in Q4 2022
- Payload: Peregrine lander with short lifetime
- Contents: rovers, instruments, etc. with longer lifetimes
- Future: CLPS-2 (IM-1) (Intuitive Machines 1), launching Dec. 22
- Payload: Nova-C lander (lifetime: 1 lunar day)
- Contents: instruments, rover, CubeSat camera
- DOGE 1 (CubeSat)
- Lunar Flashlight (CubeSat)
- Future: Luna 25, launching Sept. (doubtful?) by Russia
- Future: Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), JAXA vessel launching in 2022, short lifetime of 2-3 weeks in orbit and several days after landing
2. Reading and discussion
- Possible readings/videos that have not yet been scanned and voted on. As time allows, read/view paragraph/minute or two of each and vote: Should we read it in more depth? 5=strongly agree, 4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, 1=strongly disagree.
- https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022.
- Chad Jones, https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/, writes about endogenous growth theory.
- Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.
- Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.
- https://www.planet4589.org. Astronautics section. Something we haven't read yet, like one of the yearly reports.
- Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
- Readings that we previously scanned and voted on that might or might not be read in more depth at some point. Listed in decreasing order of vote score.
- Https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946. Vote was 4. We read the first 4 paragraphs.
- Https://www.planet4589.org. Examine the various data files ("catalogs") for several sessions/weeks of readings. Vote was 4.
- One of McDowell's *yearly* (not the more frequent news) reports, in particular, the most recent one: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space21.pdf. We read through the first paragraph of section 1.1. Vote to continue was 4.
- Already voted on: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it. We skimmed https://www.picmet.org/main/ and the question next is whether we want to read through the site in more detail. Do we search this site for another paper/papers to read? Vote was 3 11/12.
- Already voted on. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like it might be a good paper for us to read. Vote was 3.9.
- Already voted on: One candidate: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/394111 is a recent account of using DEA (which is part of TFDEA). We rechecked the abstract and read the first paragraph. Votes were: 3,5,2,5,4, averaging 3.8.
- Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox,
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/productivity-paradox/.
We read the "Home" tab and 2 paragraphs of the "Background" tab. Vote
to continue reading was: 3.5.
- 5/20/22: We read the enlarged font paragraph at the beginning of "Women's Place in Space Exploration, 1996, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenPlaceInSpaceExplorationRef2.pdf. Vote was 3 1/3.
- Already voted on: The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress. We will try out a bit of https://progress.institute/immigration-powers-american-progress/ to see if we want to read it in full. Vote was 3 2/7.
- Voted on 4/15/22: One of McDowell's update reports, available on the website. Link is: https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html. We checked #804. Vote was 3 1/12.
- Completed readings
- Ryan et al., "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009. Completed 7/22/22.
- Various previous papers.
- 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?
