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Principium 21 now released!

1 June 2018

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

29 May 2018

Issue 21 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

i4is at Breakthrough Discuss

14 April 2018

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.  

World’s First Interstellar Summer School Announced

27 March 2018

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!

2 March 2018

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

27 February 2018

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

27 February 2018

Laser sail probes at ʻOumuamua

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

16 December 2017

Issue 19 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

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Mission to an Interstellar Object

5 May 2026

Adam Hibberd Many readers in-the-know will have heard of the future ESA ‘Comet Interceptor’ mission, due to launch in 2029. For those not-in-the-know it is a spacecraft desgined to loiter at the famous Sun/Earth Lagrange 2 (L2) point for a few years, waiting for a ‘pristine’ Oort Cloud comet to come flying in to the […]

Members Newsletter – April

30 April 2026

Dami Lee on Project HyperionWe were really happy to see that our Project Hyperion competition (https://www.projecthyperion.org/) captured the imagination of the architect and Youtuber Dami Lee, who posted a detailed and thoughtful video commentary ‘Can Humans REALLY Leave Earth?’ Over one million views! Check it out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBb2gC0lByk&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5tD(You may want to skip the ads that are […]

Members Newsletter – March

31 March 2026

News from i4isThe i4is Educational team are currently recruiting! If any of our members are interested, and especially if you are in striking distance of London or Lincoln, both in the UK, we could do with support at the April events mentioned below. You can read about some of the activities in recent issues of […]

Principium 52

2 March 2026

Principium 52 has gone out to subscribers and is now accessible to all

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