Adam Hibberd I think most of you know me by now as the guy who developed the tool called ‘Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software’ (OITS) which ultimately solved the problem of how we might send a spacecraft to catch up with rapidly receding interstellar object and scientific enigma ‘Oumuamua. I decided to work on OITS – […]
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Members Newsletter – December
New Editor and additional team members for i4is Principium, the interstellar quarterly magazineAfter 10 years and 41 issues John Davies will be stepping down as Editor after the 50th issue, August 2025. He will be working with Deputy Editor Patrick Mahon and the i4is Board of Directors over the next three months to appoint a […]
Principium 47
Principium 47 has gone out to subscribers and is now accessible to all.
Members Newsletter – November
Project HyperionProject Hyperion, an initiative of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is), has launched a competition inviting public participation in designing a generation ship capable of interstellar travel. Generation ships, self-sustaining spacecraft designed to support human crews over centuries-long journeys, represent a viable solution for reaching exoplanets given the technological and logistical challenges of achieving […]
Members Newsletter – October
Principium 47 preprints Principium 47 will be published in November 2024. These preprints of articles from this issue are now available to members – Interstellar News, eight pages of Interstellar News https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/interstellar-news-Principium47-2410280851comp.pdf News Feature, abstracts from JBIS and Acta Astronica https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-Journals-Principium47-2410271602-comp.pdf Report from the Space Propulsion Conference 2024 Glasgow, 20-23 May 2024, 9th 3AF (Association […]
A Precursor Mission to Proxima Centauri
A Mission to Five Near Earth Objects in 2030 Adam Hibberd We at i4is, together with our collaborators on the Phase I NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) at Space Initiatives Inc., have been contemplating precursors to the ultimate mission of sending laser sails to swarm our nearest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri. A summary of the […]
Deflecting Apophis
Adam Hibberd There have been some developments. I have been addressing the problem of how to deflect Apophis from its path if it were indeed on a collision course with Earth. My Apocalypse Plot gives the magnitude of ΔV at different points in Apophis’s orbit to send it on a course to JUST strike the […]
Members Newsletter – September
The First European Interstellar SymposiumThe First European Interstellar Symposium is happening in Luxembourg December 2nd-5th . Earlybird pricing for registration to the symposium ended on September 30th. Pricing is now 450 Euros ($502). More information can be found here: https://irg.space/first-european-interstellar-symposium/ i4is Presents at NASA NIAC 2024On 12 September 2024, Marshall Eubanks and the i4is team […]
