The mahalanobis distance in Character Recognition Authored by Dan Frey 31 July 98 This sheet explores the use of the Mahalanobis Distance in character It defines a letters a.b.c. and d It creates a population of distorted letters to train a classifier

Automatic repeat request (ARQ) Break large files into packets FILE PKT PKT PKT Check received packets for errors Use a feedback channel to request retransmissions Retransmit packets containing errors acket Receive ACK

Packet Multiple Access SHARED UPLIN TERMINAL APPL TERMINALL TRANS NET LLC DLC MAC

Electrical Power System EPS Power Energy Power Power Regulation Source Storage Distribution and Control

OVERVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT Outgassing in near vacuum Atmospheric drag Chemical reactions Plasma-induced charging Radiation damage of microcircuits, solar arrays, and sensors single event upsets in digital devices Hyper-velocity impacts

Goal: Give necessary optics background to tackle a space mission, which includes an optical payload Light .Interaction of light w/environment o Optical design fundamentals Optical performance considerations .Telescope types and CCd design interferometer types

ARGOS Overview Angular Resolution at 2=550 nm: 5 arcsec Wavelength Regime 400-700 nm FOr (Field-of-Regard): 120(full cone)

Overview lecture Space Systems Engineering presented by: Prof David Miller prepared by: Olivier de Weck Revised and augmented by: Soon-Jo Chung Chart: 1 16.684 Space Systems Product Development February 13, 2001

Outline Launch systems characteristics Launch systems selection process Spacecraft design envelope environments

Lecture 1: Input/Output and State-Space Models This lecture presents some basic definitions and simple examples on nonlinear dynam