From the Editor-in-Chief FEBRUARY 2018 DOI. No. 10.1109/MAES.2018.182002 O Peter Willett ne of our most timely articles ever is "MH370 Burst Frequency Offset Analysis and Implications on Descent Rate at End of Flight", by Ian Holland of DSTO in Australia. I think we all were horrified by the ill-fated flight's disappearance, and most of us have followed the progress of the search in hope that the results will help sense to be made of the tragedy. The article lays out the timeline; but it focuses on the burst frequency offset (BFO) data as observed from satellite communications - can the pattern provide clues about what happened and where? You must read to see. "A Generic Method for Remote Sensing Satellites Conceptual Design and Rapid Sizing Based on 'Design for Performance' Strategy" by Ahmadi, Kosari and Maleak from Iran offers an adaptation of the 'design plane' techniques from airframes to space vehicles - how much satellite (and thrust) do we need? Finally, I must admit that I am a huge fan of 'ghost shows' on television - the ones where researchers have 'spirit boxes' that grab words from the afterlife by allowing the spirits in the room to modulate noise, and in which vague shapes that appear on video are enhanced and positively identified. I love the shows - but where is the science? "Audio Signal Processing to Investigate Alleged Paranormal Phenomena in Mediumistic Séances" applies hard-headed signal processing techniques to the matter. The result is perhaps not what you think. -Peter K. Willett A picture of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, courtesy of Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. 22 IEEE A&E SYSTEMS MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0