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The Infinite Horizon of Discovery

23 January 2017

In the ages of old, people thought that if you kept going out into the Atlantic Ocean, you would eventually fall off the edge of the Earth. Indeed, there were also tales of monsters that lurked there, waiting to snatch the sailor and his ship and drag them down into the abyss below. Well, there […]

Exec Director to present to NASA

13 January 2017

Kelvin Long, Executive Director of i4is, is to present to NASA at JSC on 1st February 2017, “Interstellar travel the next frontier of exploration STARSHOT initiative”.

School Interstellar Challenge Day

12 January 2017

John Davies, senior researcher and school educational lead at i4is, created the interstellar challenge day for schools in collaboration with STEM Learning Ltd and the British Interplanetary Society. Eight London schools entered teams.

Starship Engineer Course BIS 12/13th November 2016

7 January 2017

Kelvin Long and Rob Swinney, supported ably by John Davies and Gill Norman, delivered the ever-popular Starship Engineer course at the HQ of the British Interplanetary Society on 12/13th November.

Principium 15

29 November 2016

Issue 15 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

Principium 14

20 August 2016

Issue 14 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

Principium 13

2 June 2016

Issue 13 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

Principium 12

10 February 2016

Issue 12 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

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The Clock is Ticking on Project Lyra

25 July 2026

Adam Hibberd Where are the Interstellar Objects (ISOs)? A new observatory (Vera C. Rubin) has been operating for a month and has not yet found any. A month of Vera C. Rubin is probably not long enough for scientists to change models of their abundance. If nothing after a year? Maybe scientists might start considering […]

Members Newsletter – June

30 June 2026

There’s no shortage of incredible interstellar content to choose from this month. I4is researchers published! Preliminary Analysis into the Feasibility of Missions to Asteroid 2024 YR4We are delighted that our lead astrodynamicist Adam Hibberd and our friend T Marshall Eubanks (Space Initiative Inc, USA) have a paper published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and […]

Principium 53

3 June 2026

Principium 53 has gone out to subscribers and is now accessible to all

Members Newsletter – May

2 June 2026

The Board of Directors of i4is and the Editor of Principium will make the following announcement in the next issue of Principium:”The i4is Board has been considering the future of Principium, given changes in the ways in which people receive and consume information and content. We have decided to pause the publication of Principium with […]

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