Artificial intelligence probe design (Image: Adrian Mann) AI has frequently been proposed as a key enabler for interstellar exploration and colonization. However, no comprehensive study of the various AI-enabled concepts for interstellar probes has been conducted to date. This has now changed with a brand-new article by renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter and Andreas […]
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Public presentation – To the Stars on a Paintbrush
Public presentation by world renowned space artist David A Hardy – To the Stars on a Paintbrush When and Where? Friday 14th December 2018 starting at 6pm in the Conference Room, Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8ES David A. Hardy has been producing astronomical art since 1952, and became freelance in 1965. […]
Cassini at Saturn: The End of an Era
Public Lecture by Professor Carl Murray, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London Cassini at Saturn: the End of an Era When and Where? Friday 30th November 2018 starting at 6pm in the Conference Room, Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8ES
Symposium on the Philosophy of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
A series of public talks by various speakers (listed below). This event is not about the technology that we may use to search for intelligent life in the Cosmos, but more a discussion on what we mean by life, intelligence, and the philosophy of our approach to finding those things external to the Earth. It […]
Public Lecture – Avoiding Intellectual Stagnation: the Starship as an Expander of Minds
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
Public Lecture – Holographic Photon Sails: a Merger of Science and Art
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
Reaching the Stars in a Century using Fusion Propulsion
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 […]
Principium 22
Issue 22 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.