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  Sociotechnical Plan for the Air Vehicle Safety Prevention and Protection System Image Generated by Bing   Scope Despite the many SpaceX technological successes, the Starship rocket launched in April 2023 was destroyed by fire and explosion four minutes after launch above the Gulf of Mexico (Time, 2023). Thankfully, no lives were lost associated with the air vehicle disaster for which the cause is undetermined. However, there was a risk to public safety.   The scope of this sociotechnical plan is to propose a system to ensure that these flight catastrophes are prevented, the Air Vehicle Safety Prevention and Protection System. The Starship example and other incidents where air vehicle failures or external forces resulted in the loss of life are the motivators for this plan, including the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, and the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance. This plan suggests that there were indicators of pendin...

  SpaceX Starship  Elon Musk is a renowned innovator and businessman in multiple industries. He started SpaceX to build rockets when his attempts to purchase  intercontinental ballistic missiles  (ICBMs) to send the greenhouse payloads into space failed in 2020. SpaceX became the first private company to place astronauts into orbit and dock a crewed spacecraft with the International Space Station ( Wikipedia (n.d.) .  Despite the many SpaceX technological successes,  the Starship rocket launched in April 2023 was destroyed by fire and explosion four minutes after launch above the Gulf of Mexico (Time, 2023).   Thankfully, no lives were lost associated with the air vehicle disaster for which the cause is undetermined. However, there was a risk to public safety.  The Starship fleet was grounded until the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) determined that “any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety” ...

Credit: Bing Image Creator Unit 7 Discussion Board 2 Innovation Definitions Serendipity Innovations:   Serendipity innovations present when something different than expected happens while performing typical activities, and the result can be applied to make an improvement or create a new solution. Error Innovations: Innovation errors result when a mistake is made while performing a task that results in a useful innovation. Exaptation Innovations:   Exaptation innovation involves using a solution for one application and applying it to develop a different innovative application. Serendipity Innovation – Saccharin In 1879, Constantin Fahlberg, a Russian chemist, was mixing chemicals in the lab to investigate the oxidation of o-toluene-sulfonamide  (Britannica, 2023).   He later noticed a sweet taste in his food, and despite washing his hands, the taste was on his arms and legs.   He performed more experiments and discovered that the sweetness was caused ...

  The Rise and Fall of AOL America Online (AOL) was founded in 1983 as an online service provider and web portal.   The company was a leader in email, internet connectivity, online news, and chat services, with market capitalization exceeding $200 billion at its peak ( Cuofano, 2023) . Eadicicco et al . (2017) stated that AOL was the “ first popular social network” and that AOL’s Instant Messenger platform was the forerunner for today's messaging apps. Contributors to the later demise of AOL include the merger with Time Warner, the cultural differences between AOL and Time Warner executives and employees, and the introduction of Broadband Internet (versus AOL’s dial-up product) (Dumont, 2022). Failure Contributor 1: The Merger In 2001, AOL purchased Time Warner in a deal valued at $350 billion, the largest merger in American business history (CNET, 2010).   However, the combined company could not successfully integrate mass media content with the Internet...

  “Affectability in Educational Technologies” Socio-Technical Definition and Description Hayashi and Baranauskas (2019) discuss the affectability associated with the XO Project (2010) insertion of laptops into the Padre Emílio Miotti School in Campinas, Brazil.   The researchers applied an adapted version of the Semiotic Onion and the science of design models developed by Stamper (1993) and Baranauskas (2009) to research the technical, formal, and informal effects associated with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization laptop donation to the school ( Hayashi & Baranauskas, 2019) .   The researchers also investigated the affectability of laptop insertion into the education process regarding emotional and hedonic responses.   Based on the data collected from workshops and class participation observation, the researcher represented the affectability results of four case studies.   Results for the first case, “transforming homework assignments,” indicat...