To promote his novel "Mission Compromised," a Washington thriller, Mr. North will drive through 32 cities in 28 days.
And in Alan Furst's new novel, "Mission to Paris," an actor stars in a movie about World War I called "Après la Guerre," or "After the War," which begins filming at the dawn of World War II.
In Tuesday's New York Times, Ben Sisario wrote about ReDigi, a company in Cambridge, Mass., that has taken up a novel mission — developing a system for reselling digital music files that is legal and secure.
The paper provides a survey of novel mission concepts for continuous, hemispheric polar observation and direct-link polar telecommunications.
The novel mission concept foresees a formation of very low altitude parasitic small satellites capturing the signal transmitted by existing LEO SARs in C and X bands.
The paper summarises a novel mission concept called SIMONE (smallsat intercept missions to objects near Earth), whereby a fleet of microsatellites may be deployed to individually rendezvous with a number of near Earth objects (NEOs), at very low cost.
In order to facilitate the test and access to the loading and lifetime information of the power devices, a novel mission profile based stress emulator experimental setup is proposed and designed.
We propose a novel mission coordination architecture, CP AD (Checkpoint/Priority/Action Database), which performs path planning via checkpoint and dynamic priority assignment, using statistical estimates of the environment's motion structure in order to make both preplanning and reactive behaviors more efficient.
The important part is in selecting a novel mission that will be a stretch to achieve.
Novel space mission concepts such as Federated Satellite Systems promise to enhance sustainability, robustness, and reliability of current missions by means of in-orbit sharing of space assets.
