The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) is a UK-registered not-for-profit company, whose objectives are education and research into the challenges...
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Project Lyra (category Interstellar travel)
study of a mission to interstellar objects such as ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, initiated on 30 October 2017 by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is)...
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Project Dragonfly (2014+) The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) has initiated a project working on small interstellar spacecraft, propelled by a...
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members continue to publish on crewed interstellar travel in collaboration with the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. The Enzmann starship, as detailed...
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design study aimed at designing a credible, mainly nuclear fusion-based, uncrewed interstellar space probe. Project Icarus was an initiative of members...
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were succumbing to a powerful gravitational force." The Initiative for Interstellar Studies published a review in their quarterly online magazine focusing...
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The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) launched in 2017 Project Lyra to assess the feasibility of a mission to ʻOumuamua. Several options for sending...
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conceptual design study that assesses the feasibility of a laser-propelled interstellar probe, conducted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. Contrary...
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transferred to the Initiative for Interstellar Studies's world ship project and have presented their results at the ESA Interstellar Workshop in 2019 as...
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its large perihelion distance. According to a 2021 study by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, a future flyby mission with a direct, low-energy trajectory...
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3I/ATLAS (category Interstellar objects)
Loeb of Harvard University and other researchers of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies published a paper on arXiv speculating that 3I/ATLAS could...
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2017. "To the Voyagers and escaping from the Sun". Initiative for Interstellar Studies. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2023. Smith, Martin C.;...
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1I/ʻOumuamua (category Interstellar objects)
The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) launched Project Lyra to assess the feasibility of a mission to ʻOumuamua. Several options for sending...
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of a self-replicating probe has been proposed by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies,[clarification needed] achieving about 70% self-replication, based...
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Breakthrough Starshot (redirect from Starshot Breakthrough Initiative)
engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, to be capable of...
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Initiative for Interstellar Studies. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 3 February 2023. "Horizons Batch for 200...
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Generation ship (category Interstellar travel)
to the Initiative for Interstellar Studies's world ship project and a survey paper on generation ships has been presented at the ESA Interstellar Workshop...
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2I/Borisov (category Interstellar objects)
makes it hard for a spacecraft to reach the comet with existing technology: according to a team of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, a 202 kg (445 lb)...
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Business Cases (Report). International Space University / Initiative for Interstellar Studies. Andrew H. Cutler, Metallurgical Properties of Lunar and...
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Avi Loeb (category Institute for Advanced Study people)
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (2021) and Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars (2023). Since...
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Practices". arXiv:2010.08344v2 [astro-ph.IM]. "The Great Enterprise Initiative". Space Studies Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved...
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"Breakthrough Initiatives". Archived from the original on 15 January 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017. Lubin, Philip (April 2015). "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight"...
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Starship (redirect from Interstellar spacecraft)
A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found...
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escaping from the Sun". Initiative for Interstellar Studies. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2023. "Horizons Batch for 200 AU". JPL Horizons. Retrieved...
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Outer space (redirect from Interstellar space)
they collide with the interstellar medium. For decades it was assumed that the Sun had a bow shock. In 2012, data from Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)...
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for the Project Dragonfly Design Competition, held by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (I4IS). The WARR team could prevail in this competition against...
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found for technology-related signals from KIC 8462852 in the studies. In a 2020 paper, Berera examined sources of decoherence in the interstellar medium...
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advancements in all aspects of the heliosphere and its interaction with the interstellar medium. This effort culminated in the "International Heliophysical Year"...
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Interstellar probe project, a similar initiative to Starlight Interstellar probe Interstellar travel 2069 Alpha Centauri mission – NASA concept for uncrewed...
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Anne Hathaway (category New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study alumni)
the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She has since played a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the owner...
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