Initiative for Interstellar Studies
Working towards the achievement of interstellar flight through knowledge to the stars - Starships in our lifetime
Lecture by Professor Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck, University College London.
When and Where? Friday 26th October 2018 at 6pm in the Conference Room, Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8ES
Professor Greg Matloff, City University of New York, and C Bangs, artist and former NASA faculty Fellow, will give a lecture on the merger of science and art in the field of holographic photon sails and show the propulsive possibilities of holography in space.
Saturday 29th September 2018 at 1pm in the Conference Room, Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8ES
Fusion-based rocket propulsion remains our best current option to deliver substantial probe payloads to the nearest stars quickly. Project Icarus was founded by members of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) and Tau Zero Foundation in 2009. It is now a joint effort by the BIS and Icarus Interstellar to build on BIS Project Daedalus using […]
The AttoSat Manifesto AttoSats in orbit (Image: Efflam Mercier) Despite the advent of CubeSats, PocketQubes, and femto satellites, developing and launching a spacecraft still costs a fortune, the equivalent of buying a house. It also takes years to get from the initial concept to launch. This means that space exploration for education is still only […]
How to design spacecraft and starships… Last chance to book on to our interstellar summer school, which will be held at the Initiative for Interstellar Studies HQ, The Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES from Wednesday 15th to Sunday 19th August 2018. For more information see the full advert below and for admission to […]
Some people are working on how we might really travel to the stars in the near future. Rob Swinney, i4is, Fellow of the BIS, Project Leader of Project Icarus and former RAF squadron leader will discuss the likely methods and means in a way understandable to all. In the near future will it be giant […]
The Apkallu Initiative: A Project to build a Minilithic Artefact to Preserve the Knowledge of Human Civilization into Deep Time In the Event of Global Cataclysm We are pleased to announce that Kelvin Long will give this month’s lecture presentation at the Initiative for Interstellar Studies HQ, The Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES 2018. […]
Welcome to the members’ section of the website for the Initiative for Interstellar Studies; a section only available to our subscribing members. Here, you will find several database indexes that we are building. One, known as the ‘Interstellar Index’, is in relation to all published articles, books, papers, films and documentaries. We also plan to […]
