Newsletter

We have a number of upcoming talks in our 2021 series of online talks. This week Olivia Borgue will be talking about advanced propulsion techniques and the technology required to make them possible.

Our first talk in our 2021 series of online talks for members of i4is is by John Davies from i4is. John will be discussing the interstellar downlink. Drop in if you can and you will get to meet some of the key and active people in i4is and hopefully learn some new ‘interstellar’ facts, theories and i4is activities.

Next up in our series of member online talks is Andreas Hein discussing world ships! We also have many more Principium preprints and videos available.

We’re inviting you to a new i4is online talk series, suited to the widest possible audience. Meet the key people in i4is and learn some new facts!

We bring you five new Principium preprints and also highlight recent work by our Technical Team, including a new Mission Concept White Paper.

Welcome to the member newsletter of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. We hope you are keeping well. In this newsletter we bring your attention to lots of new videos added to the members area as well as some new articles by the i4is Technical Team.

We have been looking at the responses to the i4is members survey. We noticed a lot of responses from people who would like to get involved with us…

We have added a large collection of videos of the online classes from the module we recently delivered for the International Space University (ISU). We have received kind permission from the ISU to share these videos with our members.

Welcome to the member newsletter of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. We hope you are keeping well. In this newsletter we bring your attention to some new Principium preprints as well as a new i4is article on world ships recently published in the ESA journal, Acta Futura.

The i4is Annual Report 2019 has just been published for all members to read. We also have a list of short research projects that you can work on.

The i4is Membership Survey is still open. Your feedback allows us to create the membership scheme that our members want. In this newsletter we also highlight a number of opportunities to get involved with i4is projects.

When it comes to travelling through interstellar space to other stars in the Milky Way, electric sails may be more effective than light sails, according to a new paper by Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb or Florida Institute of Technology and Harvard University respectively.