Issue 11 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.
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Project Dragonfly competition workshop
Four international teams, almost exclusively consisting of students, are going to present their design for an interstellar probe. And this time, things get small.
The emergence of the Starship
A technological transition occurred when the real lunar ship emerged into our world, and crystallised from a thing of thought, to a thing of matter and energy. Today, we imagine what a future starship may look like.
The starship – what is it for anyway?
By the time the Starship reached its destination after centuries of travel time, what history would have passed by back on Earth? Indeed, how would the culture on board the Starship have evolved?
I4IS presents at the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory
Rob Swinney and Terry Regan attended a special event at the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory in August. Over two evenings the pair, representing both i4is and the British Interplanetary Society discussed the prospects of real interstellar flight in the near future.
The interstellar minimum
As a part of our educational initiatives, our team has recently put together a small test paper for starship design, known as ‘the interstellar minimum’ after the famous Russian physicist Lev Landau and his ‘theoretical minimum’ entrance exam for university degree programs.
Principium 10
Issue 10 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.
Pluto flyby success
Yesterday the NASA New Horizons spacecraft successfully executed a flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto, one of the Trans-Neptunian objects, to within a distance of just over 12,500 km.