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    Project Daedalus (named after Daedalus, the Greek mythological designer who crafted wings for human flight) was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978...
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    fusion have been the baseline for most later designs, including Project Daedalus and Project Longshot. Calculations for a potential use of this technology...
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    as Pollux is from the Earth. Barnard's Star was studied as part of Project Daedalus. Undertaken between 1973 and 1978, the study suggested that rapid,...
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    precursor to the existing International Space Station. Similar to Project Daedalus, Longshot was designed with existing technology in mind, although some...
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  • Daedalus Project may refer to: Project Daedalus, a 1973–1978 uncrewed spacecraft project Daedalus Project (skydiving), a brand of high performance parachutes...
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  • to set up the project. A symposium was organized by Kelvin Long and Ian Crawford at the British Interplanetary Society to review "Daedalus After 30 Years"...
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    consideration. Supporters of Project Orion felt that it had potential for cheap interplanetary travel. From Project Longshot to Project Daedalus, Mini-Mag Orion,...
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  • served as Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL, Reaction Engines Skylon and the Reaction...
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  • distinction" for film and television projects that are proven to have gender-balanced hiring, with stamps being awarded to projects that hire female-identifying...
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    pp. 1–27, 1954 Special Issue on World Ships, JBIS, 37, 6, June 1984 Project Daedalus - Final Study Reports, Alan Bond & Anthony R Martin et al., Special...
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    reasonable speed of travel. Proposed concepts include Project Daedalus, Project Icarus, Project Dragonfly, Project Longshot, and more recently Breakthrough Starshot...
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    carries other smaller vehicles Project Icarus (interstellar) – 2009 project to update design of Project Daedalus Project Longshot – Spacecraft design 100...
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    In Greek mythology, Daedalus (UK: /ˈdiːdələs/, US: /ˈdɛdələs/ ; Greek: Δαίδαλος; Latin: Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful architect and craftsman...
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    confinement is inertial confinement fusion (ICF), such as that proposed by Project Daedalus. A small pellet of fusion fuel (with a diameter of a couple of millimeters)...
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    interstellar mission studies such as Project Daedalus and Project Icarus, the focus is particularly on a small spacecraft. The project was founded in 2013 by the...
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  • microexplosion nuclear pulse propulsion system (like that proposed in Project Daedalus) that may allow it to obtain an interstellar cruising velocity of up...
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    larger project preceded by large interstellar probes and telescopic observation of target star systems. Project Daedalus (1973–1978) Project Daedalus was...
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    Breakthrough Starshot (category Projects established in 2016)
    1970s proposal for an interstellar probe Project Icarus – 2009 project to update design of Project Daedalus Project Longshot – Spacecraft design 2069 Alpha...
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    with a nuclear reactor was considered by Tony Martin for interstellar Project Daedalus in 1973, but the approach was rejected because of its thrust profile...
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    Icarus (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
    romanized: Íkaros, pronounced [ǐːkaros]) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens...
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    star has also been a target of plans for interstellar travel such as Project Daedalus. In 2005, astronomers using data from the Green Bank Telescope discovered...
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  • Look up Daedalus or daedalus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Daedalus was a figure in Greek mythology. Daedalus, Daedelus, Daidalos or Dedale may...
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  • Imperfection" "The Sounds of Thunder" "Light and Shadows" "If Memory Serves" "Project Daedalus" "The Red Angel" "Perpetual Infinity" "Through the Valley of Shadows"...
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    designed in Project Daedalus was chosen, to be used in combination with the Stanford torus, being attached to the center of the torus. Daedalus would provide...
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    only the BIS. In 1978, the society published a starship study called Project Daedalus, which was a detailed feasibility study for a simple uncrewed interstellar...
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    path finding (using Dijkstra's Algorithm) and lighting project. Daedalus Lib Open Source. Daedalus Lib manages fully dynamic triangulated 2D environment...
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  • engines such as the inertial confinement pulse drive used by Project Daedalus or Project Orion. The Valkyrie's lightweight construction could also be...
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    Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus is a class of three human-powered aircraft that included Daedalus 88 – which, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance...
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    demonstrated by the British Interplanetary Society's starship study Project Daedalus in 1978. Starting in 1979, Robert Freitas advanced arguments for the...
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    proposed as follows. Project Orion, first engineering design study of nuclear pulse (i.e., atomic explosion) propulsion Project Daedalus, 1970s British Interplanetary...
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