The AttoSat Manifesto AttoSats in orbit (Image: Enora 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 […]
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Interstellar Summer School 15th – 19th August 2018
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 […]
Extreme Deep Space Exploration: A Personal Perspective by R Swinney
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 […]
Public Presentation 29th June 2018: The Apkallu Initiative
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 i4is
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 […]
“Slow down!”: How to park an interstellar rocket
Solar physicist Tishtrya Mehta is a regular Principium contributor. Here she brings us an introduction to momentum braking, based on work by Professor Dr Claudius Gros, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Frankfurt/Main Germany.
Principium 21 now released!
The latest issue of our free interstellar magazine, Principium, is now out! This time in our introduction feature, Tishtrya Mehta tells us how to park an interstellar rocket. Read that and much more including book reviews and news features in Principium 21!
Principium 21
Issue 21 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.