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Principium 33

Issue 33 of Principium, the quarterly publication of the Initiative and Institute for Interstellar Studies is now published.

ISU World Ship Module

We are very pleased to be back to the International Space University (ISU) for this year’s MSS21 elective on Interstellar World Ships with several i4is researchers such as Andreas Hein, Rob Swinney, John Davies, Dan Fries, Olivia Borgue. The 2-week elective will provide the students with in-depth knowledge on world ships and they will work […]

i4is Interstellar Object Article makes Headlines

i4is, in collaboration with researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Paris Observatory published a paper, in which they estimate that about 7 interstellar objects are entering the solar system per year. The article has been featured in numerous media outlets: Science Alert, Phys.org, Astrobites, Universe Today, Mashable India, Republic World, Fred Zone. […]

i4is Director presents prospects of space resources and settlements to German Federal Ministry of the Environment

i4is Executive Director Andreas Hein has been invited to a discussion on space resource utilization with the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) on the 25th March 2021. He presented the prospects of space resource utilization and space settlements. The results of the discussion will inform future policy-making of […]

Talk Series: Debate — The Case for Interstellar

On Tuesday 2nd March at 8PM, as the last item of the current series, we are arranging, for i4is members only, not a talk but a structured debate between the for and the against the case for interstellar.

Deutsche Welle – i4is asteroid mining research featured

Andreas Hein presents some of the results form the i4is techno-economic analysis of asteroid mining in this excellent video. The paper: Hein, A. M., Matheson, R., & Fries, D. (2020). A techno-economic analysis of asteroid mining. Acta Astronautica, 168, 104-115.

Talk Series: Interstellar Precursor Missions

On 24th Nov at 8pm UTC, Robert Swinney from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on interstellar precursor missions. Members of i4is can attend this talk live!

i4is Article published in Astrophysical Journal Letters

We are proud that our article about a Venus astrobiology mission, based on a fleet of balloons has now been published in the prestigious journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. The article can also be downloaded for free via arXiv. We are grateful for the collaboration with Manasvi Lingam (Florida Institute of Technology / Harvard), without whose […]

Talk Series: Missions to Interstellar Objects — An i4is Initiative

On 3rd Nov at 8pm UTC, Marshall Eubanks will describe the i4is coordinated work in providing designs for a series of flyby, rendezvous and sample return missions to interstellar objects, showing the various ways to explore these bodies with existing technology characterizing their surface, dynamics, structure and composition.