Magnetic stimulation of human peripheral nerve and brain:
response enhancement by combined magnetoelectrical technique.

Neurosurgery 1987 Jan;20(1):110-6   (ISSN: 0148-396X)
Bickford RG; Guidi M; Fortesque P; Swenson M

The authors describe the technique of magnetic stimulation from a pulsed induction coil (4.0 T) and the enhanced (5-fold) electromyogram response from hyperthenar muscles obtained when electric and magnetic stimuli are applied simultaneously. The enhancement results have been confirmed for central brain vertex stimulation using the Sheffield magnet. Results obtained with slow (1 to 6 seconds) depth electrode stimulation and recording in humans are compared and are used to predict probable developments in the magnetic field. Because magnetic and magnetoelectrical techniques are painless, noninvasive, and noninjurious, it is believed that they are an important advance in both research and clinical applications of instrumental modification of brain circuits and behavior. There are many diagnostic and therapeutic uses at peripheral and central levels, and some ethical problems need consideration.


Indexing Check Tags: Human
anguage: English MEDLINE Indexing Date: 198705 Publication Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE

Magnetic stimulation of human peripheral nerve and brain: response enhancement by combined magnetoelectrical technique.
 Bickford RG; Guidi M; Fortesque P; Swenson M

Books on Astronautics,
Spacecraft Design and Spacecraft Systems

• P. Fortesque and J. Stark, Spacecraft Systems Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 1995.

Paperback - 600 pages 2 edition (August 30, 1995) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471952206 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.47 x 9.58 x 6.60

Book Description
The material in this book is essential for engineers studying and working in the field of spececraft design. The unique feature of this book is that its coverage aims at giving the breadth which is needed by system engineers, with an emphasis on the bus aspect rather than on the payload. This second edition is an updated of the first, and includes two estra chapters. The first is on Mechanisms, and the second is on the subhject of Systems Engineering, and it includes examples of applications to different types of missions.

EEM.sps
Credits: 15 Level M
Organiser: Dr Craig Underwood (CIU)
Lecturers: Dr Craig Underwood (CIU), Dr G Richardson (G
Semester: Spring
Day: Friday
Time: pm
Linked UG:
EE4.sps (L4SS15)
Prerequisites: EEM.spd

Recommended Texts :
A Maral & ousquet Satellite Communications Systems, 3rd ed Wiley 1998 0-471-97166-9
A Fortesque & Stark Spacecraft Systems Engineering, 2nd ed Wiley 1995 0-471-95220-6
A Boden & Larson Cost-Effective Space Mission Operations McGraw Hill 1996 0-07-006379-6
C Larson, W.J Space Mission Analysis & Design 2nd ed Kluwer Ac Pubs 0-7923-19982
 

AE 523 -- Spacecraft Design

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The main course objective is to learn how to design a generic spacecraft mission, to include: mission definition, launch system selection, spacecraft design, communication with the spacecraft, and recovery of data and/or the spacecraft itself. An ancillary objective is to design a satellite for earth observation via laser altimetry. A major element of this task is the design of a prototype to be operated on the KUAE Cessna 182. This prototype will have sensors provided by the EECS department, a command computer, a solar power subsystem and a downlink to the KUAE hangar. Note: To achieve the main course objective, many topics which are not important for the satellite design will be studied and must be mastered. This will take away time from the design effort, but may be important to students who go on to careers in the spacecraft industry.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Ewing, room 2004B Learned Hall; Phone, 864-4267, and email, mewing@aerospace.ae.ukans.edu.
MEETING TIMES: 2:30-4:00 in room 2027, Learned Hall, for lecture on Tuesday and Thursday, plus, 4:00-5:50 as needed for group design meetings.
TEXT: Spacecraft Systems Engineering, 2nd Edition, edited by Peter Fortescue and John Stark, Wiley, 1995.
MAJOR COURSE TOPICS:
1. Mission Definition and Planning, to include: Spacecraft History, Space Environment, Astrodynamics, Atmospheric Flight, Launch System Selection, Scheduling and cost estimation
2. Spacecraft Subsystems, to include: Propulsion, ,Attitude Determination & Control, Power, Thermal Control, Command, Communications, Configuration, Structures, Materials, and Specialized Mission Equipment
3. Recovery Systems, to include: Data reception, storage & analysis, Spacecraft recovery
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Each student will be required to master analysis and design techniques for mission design as well as to participate in the major design project. With regard to the design project, each student will prepare a technology assessment and a simulation report in support of the design task. Each student must prepare portions of two group reports: a preliminary design report and a final design report. Each student will also present portions of two group oral presentations: a conceptual design briefing and a critical design briefing. Each oral presentation will precede submission of a written report and provide an opportunity for the instuctor to technically critique the proposals.
EVALUATION: The course grade will be based upon homework (20%), an exam (20%), a simulation report (20%) and contributions to the oral and written design reviews (40%). Design review evaluations will be influenced by the instructor=s impression of an individual=s contribution to the group, partially evidenced by regular attendance at group design meetings.

AE 523--Introduction to Spacecraft Design
Syllabus, Spring 2000
Note: Readings from Fortesque and Stark are in parenthesis
week of Tuesday Thursday

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY - MODULE CATALOGUE

MISSION COST AND RELIABILITY

Spacecraft production and operation are very expensive with typical program costs amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds. Mission costs may be divided into three main phases, each contributing a significant proportion of the total: the design and construction of the spacecraft, the launcher and launch program costs, and the cost of operations over the spacecraft life.
The main driving factor is the cost of spacecraft launch. Launchers are extremely expensive to build and use. A guided rocket, capable of delivering a spacecraft into orbit is an extremely large, complex, multi-stage device, subject to an extreme range of temperatures and burning highly corrosive and hazardous fuels. Guidance is complex, the launcher providing huge amounts of thrust in one axis, while also controlling the other axes to direct the rocket into the correct orbit. Launch opportunities are often limited by season or by the need to clear the vicinity of the rocket launch site and flight path. Launchers must be designed to be as highly reliable as possible. In the event of failure, even if another spare spacecraft exists, another launch opportunity may not exist for months or years. Despite this, launch failures are surprisingly common: 8% of all spacecraft fail to start operations (and 11% of those destined for high orbit). Current launch insurance policies cost about 13B17% of the spacecraft replacement value and relaunch. While competition for business between launch-vehicle consortia is fierce, with European, Japanese, Russian, Chinese and American launchers all competing for business, no one has yet been able to improve significantly launch reliability, reduce launcher cost and offer a rapid service. Russian and Chinese systems are less expensive than their western counterparts (Chinese rockets quoted as 30% cheaper), but their reliability and orbital injection precision has been questioned. Arianespace’s Ariane 4 launcher now receives favourable insurance treatment because of its 90.1% success rate, but has only managed a maximum of 8 launches in one year. The same companies recent launch failure on the maiden flight of the new Ariane 5 rocket, only illustrates the difficulties of making vehicles reliable.
The cost of the launch has implications for the design of the spacecraft. With the exception of communications missions requiring constellations of spacecraft, missions (and in particular, science missions) tend to be unique—a single spacecraft being launched to carry out a particular experiment or task, with no spare or alternative mission to carry out the same task in case of failure. If a spacecraft fails then the mission is unlikely to be repeated for years, if ever. Spacecraft must therefore be highly reliable, first surviving the harsh vibration environment of launch, and then operating successfully for long lifetimes without servicing and despite large radiation doses. The design and manufacturing processes must be rigorous, ensuring the correct operation of the spacecraft the first and only time it will be used. The systems and electronics are analysed down to a component level to ensure that the failure of any particular constituent part will not jeopardise the longevity of the whole mission. Design concepts must also be continually re-examined to verify their validity. Construction is to the highest quality with no expense spared.
The current design trend is towards simple, well-tested, conservative design, producing large, heavy systems that ignore new technologies. This further spirals mission costs—the size and cost of the launcher being proportional to the size and mass of the spacecraft.
High spacecraft and launch costs also affect the cost of mission operations. Support teams monitor spacecraft around the clock, to ensure continuing operation. At the first signs of failure, a network of experts is assembled to ensure that the best expertise is available to deal with ensuing problems. During normal operation, commands and instructions are carefully vetted to ensure that they do not jeopardise the spacecraft’s performance, before they are communicated to the spacecraft. Every aspect of the spacecraft operation is documented in minute detail, producing hundreds of volumes of technical manuals that describe courses of action for all considered eventualities. Communication with spacecraft is maintained during most phases of operation often as a matter of course. For non-earth orbiting spacecraft this is particularly expensive, requiring the use of large antennae in strategic locations around the world.

All of these contributing factors drive the costs of space programs into many millions of US dollars. Mission costs can be broadly estimated from the mass of the spacecraft (Figure 1-1), small spacecraft (around 1000 kg) costing hundreds of millions of dollars and large spacecraft (around 10000 kg) costing billions (Data from Jane's Space Directory). With such large programs, management is extremely complex, and there is a tendency for costs to spiral. Mission failures and cost over-runs are embarrassing for the organisations involved.
Recently, there has been considerable political pressure to reduce or to cap program costs, shifting emphasis from scientific ideals to science value-for-money. A budding micro-satellite industry offers budget priced access to space, providing a radical alternative to conventional spacecraft development programmes, but is only suitable for missions with modest objectives. NASA administrator Daniel Goldin announced his vision of "Faster, Better, Cheaper" conventional missions, which led to NASA’s Discovery Program intended to "accomplish high quality, focused planetary science, with innovative, streamlined, and efficient management approaches". The approach limits design and manufacture to 18 months, with operations limited to three years. Mission costs are capped to $185 million (fiscal year 1992).
Such new approaches to spacecraft design require new technologies to drive costs down while still producing more reliable spacecraft. New techniques are needed to guard against system failure. Increased spacecraft autonomy is required to allow the scaling down of ground activity and hence the reduction of mission support costs. Spacecraft must make better use of fewer, lower quality instruments and sensors to make them lighter and cheaper. NASA’s lead has sparked a general trend towards smaller, more advanced spacecraft for science and technology missions that require less expensive launch vehicles.
References

ERR050 Rymdteknik

(2,5 poäng) (Space Techniques) 0741 - Radio- och rymdvetenskap
Examinator: Susanne Aalto Bergman
Rymdteknik är ett område med snabbt växande betydelse för Sverige liksom internationellt. Det är därför viktigt att vara medveten om problem och principer för rymdvetenskap och rymdteknik.
KURSENS SYFTE
Avsikten med kursen är att introducera några av de grundläggande aspekterna på rymdteknik, från en elektroteknisk synvinkel. Kursen är delvis översiktlig samtidigt som vissa problem av grundläggande intresse får en fördjupad analys. Tillämpningar kommer att ges utgående bl. a. från aktuella ESA-projekt. Kursen kan följas av teknologer i 3:e året. För vidare analys hänvisas t ex till ERR060 Satellite links, ERR011 Radar och fjärranalys .
KURSENS INNEHÅLL OCH ORGANISATION
Rymdhistorik, Sveriges roll i rymden. Satellitens omgivning: vakuum, tyngdlöshet, jordens atmosfär och jonosfär, geomagnetism, strålningsbälten, mikrometeorider och rymdskrot, solstrålning och solvind. Satellitbanor: Keplers lagar, banstörningar och korrektion av dem, geostationära banan. Satellitens läge på himlen. Raketer och raketuppskjutning. Satellitkonstruktion: materialval, energikällor, temperaturreglering, attityd- och banreglering, telemetri, telekommando och baninmätning, tillförlitlighetsaspekter, rymdkvalifikation. Satellitkommunikation: antenner, mottagare, bruskällor, länk-beräkningar.
Satellittillämpningar: Fjärranalys, navigering, astronomi, aeronomi, materialvetenskap.
I kursen ingår en obligatorisk inlämningsuppgift som utföres med hjälp av dator.
KURSLITTERATUR
P. Fortescue & J. Stark (red.): Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Wiley, 1995.
EXAMINATION
Skriftlig tentamen.

 AAE 490E Course Details

Prerequisites:

• ECE 201 and Junior-level standing

• Fortesque and Stark, Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Wiley Publishing Co., 1995.

• The course will stress course notes, so good class attendance practices are strongly encouraged.

• Assignments handed out each week (approximately) and due one week later at the beginning of class.

• NO late assignments will be accepted for any reason.

• Collaboration on assignments is encouraged assuming the final product is distinct.

• Groups of 3-4 students will provide 20 minute presentation on selected satellites (more detailed description to follow)

• Two exams will be scheduled during the semester.

• A comprehensive final will be given during the scheduled time.

2 LIMITED EDITION DINER PLATES...

VIRGINIA

Music by Arthur Schwartz: Lyrics by Albert Stillman: Book by Owen Davis and Lawrence Stallings
Opened Center Theatre 2 September, 1937 (60 perfs)
When Fortesque of Drury Lane comes to America in 1775 with a company of London actors, he also brings with him a letter for General Washington. The loyalists attempt to prevent the letter's delivery but Fortesque quietly passes it to his leading lady, Sylvia Lawrence who, in turn, passes it on to Colonel Richard Fairfax, her American admirer. Although the British seize Fairfax he manages to get the letter through.
Songs:
Fee-Fie-Fum
Good and Lucky
Jonah
If You Were Somebody Else
I'll Be Sittin' In De Lap O' De Lord
It's Our Duty To Meet the King
Meet Me At the Fair
My Bridal Gown
My Heart Is Dancing
An Old Flames Never Die
Send One Angel Down
Virginia
We Had To Rehearse
You And I Know

FINGS AIN'T WOT THEY USED TO BE

Book by Frank Norman, Music and Lyrics by Lionel Bart
Produced under the direction of Joan Littlewood at the Theatre Royal, Stratford, London 1959 and subsequently at the Garrick Theatre, London
Fred Cochran, the hero, is a down-at-heel gangster, trying to make a comeback. Lil Smith is his loyal moll, a tart with a heart of gold, who longs for respectability and keeps a marriage licence ready for her lucky day. Fred's shpieler (gambling den) provides a refuge for the failures of the underworld: Paddy the gambler, Tosher the ponce with his girls Betty and Rosey, and Redhot, a sad little burglar who never manages to get warm. They all look to Fred for a living and when he wins on the horses it seems the gang may be back in business. Fred redecorates his place, all "contempery" and at the opening the Horrible Percey Fortesque comes to gamble and a rival leader, Meatface, is beaten in a razor fight. The play ends with a wedding - Lil and Fred are giving up crime to go straight; handing over the shpieler to the constable on the beat who has long wanted to go crooked!
The author admits that the final published version of Fings owes much to the improvisation that took place during rehearsals by the Theatre Workshop Company who originally staged it. It was conceived as a straight play with music rather than a musical play; but it does provide opportunities for extras and for some lively ensembles. The music is all in unison and the play is therefore specially suited to the dramatic society looking for a musical show.
Singing Principals
Lily
Rosey
Betty
Myrtle
Fred
Tosher
Sergeant Collins
Redhot
Norman
Horace
Paddy
Percy
Ted.

Smaller roles
A priest
a "Mystery"
the Brass Upstairs
Police Constable
Gamblers
Builders
Teddy Girls and Boys.

The Scenes
There is one setting which represents the interior of Fred Cochran's gambling den in a back street in Soho. The front of the stage represents the street outside

Band parts are not available

A Soldier's daughter never cries

(….) Voor het tweede deel, Francis, nemen we een klein sprongetje en zijn de kinderen ondertussen als 15 jaar. Billy is nog steeds zwijgzaam en blijkt zich niet echt te kunnen aanpassen aan zijn omgeving. Channe daarentegen gaat een hechte vriendschap aan met Francis Fortesque. Francis is anders als de andere jongens. Hij geeft zich helemaal over aan de opera en is stiekem verliefd op Channe. (….)

Sven van Beir

A Soldier's daughter never cries

Growing up with James Jones

t to other members of the family.

A Soldier's daughter never cries

'Daughter' a Sensitive Look at Love, Acceptance
KENNETH TURAN TIMES FILM CRITIC
Friday September 18, 1998

(…)

The first of those is called "Francis," after Paul Francis Fortescue (beautifully played by Anthony Roth Costanza), a flamboyant young man whose close teenage friendship with Channe is threatened when she starts to take a romantic interest in other boys. Again, the awkwardness and entanglements of those years is tricky material to handle well, but Ivory, who's said that in creating this character "I sometimes drew on myself," knows how to make it valid.
(…)

The story begins by portraying Willis and his wife Marcella (Barbara Hershey, as always without vanity), as boozy American expatriates in 1960s Paris. The family's life is shown mostly from the perspective of young Channe (Leelee Sobieski), who is becoming a writer herself. She is befriended by a schoolmate in Paris, a stranger who opens a magnificent, exotic, different world, the self-dramatizing and sexually ambiguous Francis Fortescue (the frighteningly poised Anthony Roth Costanzo), whom Ivory has said he let take over the narrative, identifying with "the clever sissy who knew from the first grade he would take up a 'life of art.'"