Starship Blog

i4is is happy to announce a new project: Project Lyra. Lyra is the star constellation from which the interstellar asteroid  A/2017 U1 came from. According to current information, the object is smaller than 400m  in diameter and is currently travelling at 44km/s with respect to the sun, much faster than any human-made object to date. What […]

  Dear Friends, Many of us have dreamed of the stars since we were little children, inspired by the tremendous achievements of Project Apollo and others. This vision has pushed us onwards with passion towards the fulfilment of a dream, the likes of which thrills all of our hearts and souls to the core. We […]

This final post is a summary on how the workshop worked out and what the actual intentions and thinking behind it were. Over the last half a dozen years there has been many excellent conferences in the interstellar community. But upon examining these it was found there were several elements that were not necessarily conducive […]

The co-chairman for the workshop, Professor Roman Kezerashvili, had set a challenge, for the participants to come up with some short wording as a statement about some of our discussions. Work started on this during the Wednesday evening after dinner with a short informal meeting over until the late hours between Robert Kennedy III, Robert Freeland, Kelvin […]

During the Workshop several posters were also displayed by various participants. These included: Mach Effects for In-Space Propulsion: An Interstellar Mission, Heidi Fearn et al., Space Studies Institute & California State University Fullerton. Continuous Electrode Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, Ray Sedwick et al., University of Maryland. A Bussard Ramjet with Twist and Flare, Peter N […]

This was the third and final day of the workshop, which took place at City University New York. This day was on the theme of ‘Breakthrough Propulsion’ and was chaired by Dr Harold ‘Sonny’ White of NASA Johnson Space Centre. After an introduction about the uncertainties in physics and cosmology that we are still to […]

This was the second day of the workshop and was chaired by Professor Roman Kezerashvili, on the theme of ‘Sails and Beams’. Roman is himself the Chairman of the Physics Department at the City University New York, and also the co-chairman on the organizing committee, along with Kelvin F. Long. The theme was picked as […]

This was the first of the technical workshop days to take place in the main auditorium lecture theatre at the City University New York Brooklyn Campus on Jay Street. The day was chaired by Kelvin F. Long, Executive Director and co-founder Initiative for Interstellar Studies and Chairman Institute for Interstellar Studies USA. The main topics […]