Principium editor John Davies offers a personal view of the continuing mystery of the interstellar object Oumuamua. More than one year since its discovery we still do not know what this object is. Here John summarises analysis so far and suggests that a mission to Oumuamua may be our only way of solving the mystery.
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Implications of the Gaia Mission for Future Interstellar Travel
In this article, Dr Phil Sutton, Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Lincoln, UK, discusses how the Gaia astrometry mission creates our first full “map of the neighbourhood”. This data has immediate supporting value for all astronomical investigation but also has both cosmological and astronautical significance as we begin to contemplate missions to the near stars. […]
Public presentation – To the Stars on a Paintbrush
Public presentation by world renowned space artist David A Hardy – To the Stars on a Paintbrush When and Where? Friday 14th December 2018 starting at 6pm in the Conference Room, Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8ES David A. Hardy has been producing astronomical art since 1952, and became freelance in 1965. […]
Cassini at Saturn: The End of an Era
Public Lecture by Professor Carl Murray, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London Cassini at Saturn: the End of an Era When and Where? Friday 30th November 2018 starting at 6pm in the Conference Room, Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8ES
Reaching the Stars in a Century using Fusion Propulsion
Fusion-based rocket propulsion remains our best current option to deliver substantial probe payloads to the nearest stars quickly. Project Icarus was founded by members of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) and Tau Zero Foundation in 2009. It is now a joint effort by the BIS and Icarus Interstellar to build on BIS Project Daedalus using […]