It’s been an exciting year for space exploration. We saw the space probe Rosetta encounter a comet, we saw the successful flight of the NASA Orion capsule, and SpaceX continues to impress us all with its tremendous reusable launcher capability. And yet more countless worlds discovered around other stars.
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Science fiction starships at TVIW
our workshop proposal has been accepted for the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop (TVIW) to be held in Oakridge, Tennessee, USA, this November. Our proposal was selected under theme 1 “near-term and far-term concepts for travelling at interstellar ranges”.
Project Dragonfly Design Competition
News: We now have three teams that have qualified for the main competition! We are looking forward to welcome more teams for the main challenge! Introduction: Project Dragonfly is a feasibility study for an interstellar mission, conducted by small, distributed spacecraft, propelled primarily by laser sails. The spacecraft shall be capable of reaching the […]
Principium 8
Issue 8 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.
Building a solar system economy
We live in an age where we are now aware of countless thousands of planets out there in the galaxy, orbiting other stars. This is an exciting discovery which must surely urge us onwards to go discover what is truly out there. But getting there is no easy trick.
Transcendence going interstellar: how the singularity might revolutionise interstellar travel
Mind uploading opens up exciting opportunities for interstellar flight.
Presentation to Manchester Schools Philosophical Society
Director Rob Swinney braved the Friday afternoon rush hour to drive deep in to the suburbs of Manchester, England to give a talk to the Philsoc of Manchester Grammer School (MGS), Withington High School and Manchester High School for Girls. This Philsoc had run in some guise for nearly 150 years where the sixth formers of originally MGS organised stimulating talks from the boys themselves and later from natural philosophers and scientists of some renown.
Founding principles
Back in May 2014 when members of the initiative for interstellar studies derived our articles of incorporation, we also spent some time putting together a founding principles document, which we are now releasing. This is meant to act as a guide and to remind the future generations of our original intentions. The text for the […]