Our President Kelvin Long and Elena Ancona have participated in the Breakthrough Discuss panel on Progress in Novel Space Propulsion. More information about Breakthrough Discuss 2018 under this link. The video recording of the panel can be found here.
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World’s First Interstellar Summer School Announced
Have you ever wanted to know how to design spacecraft and starships? Would you like to get access to the latest information on technology developments relevant to advanced space propulsion, artificial intelligence and astronomy? Would you like to understand what the implications for going interstellar are for the outer space treaty? Now is your chance […]
Principium 20 now released!
The latest issue of our free interstellar magazine Principium is now out! This time, we present Project Lyra, a feasibility study for a mission to the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua. The amazing cover painting was made by our concept artist Enora Mercier, showing an astronaut bouncing off the surface of an interstellar asteroid flying past the […]
Principium 20
Issue 20 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.
Project Lyra: A feasibility study for a mission to the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua
Andreas Hein describes how an i4is technical team responded to the detection of the interstellar asteroid ’Oumuamua. Their paper, Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid received wide attention and sparked interest in interception of interstellar objects.
Principium 19
Issue 19 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.
Project Lyra page online!
We are making rapid advances with Project Lyra, a mission to the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua! Please visit our new Project Lyra website and have a look at the project, publications, and news coverage! More recently, concept artist Maciej Rebisz has created this wonderful image of Project Lyra laser sail spacecraft flying past ‘Oumuamua! How would […]
‘Oumuamua Interstellar
Members of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies recently made a short film discussing the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua. The asteroid has delighted the astronomical community recently with its brief entrance into our Solar System with an eccentricity of 1.2 and an inbound velocity of 26.3 km/s. The asteroid is likely […]