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Professor Miguel Alcubierre joins as an Honorary Member
Icarus Interstellar is thrilled to announce that Professor Miguel Alcubierre has joined the XP4 team as an Honorary Member. Prof. Miguel Alcubierre was born in Mexico City in 1964. He obtained his...
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A couple of weeks ago I attended the International Space Development Conference in LA. This was my first time attending the conference and I found it had a lot to offer. Many people involved with...
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Research, Reduction, and Reaching for the Stars
A reaction to the Discovery article by Ian O’Neill entitled “Another Glimpse of ‘New Physics’ at the LHC?“ The LHC was built to usher in a new era in quantum cosmology. New eras are by definition the...
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A Starship Worth Fighting For
There’s a ship out there without a name. Its been thought of by millions, conceived of, drawn, designed and re-imagined over and over. Some hold strongly to have thought of it first. Others profess to...
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Introducing Project Astrolabe – Navigating the Future of Civilization
[logo for Project Astrolabe by J. N. Nielsen] Project Astrolabe: Navigating the Future of Civilization J. N. Nielsen Introducing Project Astrolabe Icarus Interstellar will be adding Project Astrolabe...
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Introducing Project Voyager – Interstellar Trajectory and Mission Planning Tool
It is my pleasure to introduce you to Icarus’s latest research project: Project Voyager Voyager will be led by Project Leader Zach Fejes (zfejes@icarusinterstellar.org), who has built a team of...
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A Plumber’s Guide to Starships, Part 3 – Thermal Properties of Materials
Materials are the bedrock upon which we can build starship designs. Outside of science fiction, there is no use postulating a starship drive that requires materials that do not, or cannot, exist. So...
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Interstellar Comparisons
Terraformed Venus (a Wikipedia Image) Travelling to the stars within a human lifetime via the known laws of physics requires energies millions of times more potent than a trip to Mars, for example. In...
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Inspiring 8th Graders in East Texas
On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending an 8th grade career inspiration day in my town of Longview, in East Texas. I was thrilled to talk to young kids all about my work with Icarus Interstellar,...
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A Plumber’s Guide to Starships- Part 4 – Materials in High Radiation...
Materials near a fusion reaction are subject to very high levels of both X-ray and Neutron radiation. How do they stand up to this? Figure 7 – Material swelling due to radiation damage Even with a...
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Project Voyager – A Map to Navigate our Dynamic Universe
This is an excerpt taken from a recent article by Zachary Fejes on Discovery Space News. The full article on Discovery can be found here. “Indulge me, for a moment, in a brief thought experiment. You...
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A plumber’s guide to Starships – Part V – Pumps and compressors
A plumbers guide to starships Part 5- Pumps, turbines and compressors Image 1) From a water wheel to a gas turbine; what next? Secondary systems The Icarus starship will be powered by a...
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Revising Civilization
I first encountered Icarus Interstellar in 2012 and thought, “Yes! This is awesome!” I should be more articulate about “awesome”: Icarus is ambitious and grassroots and exactly the kind of effort...
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A plumber’s guide to Starships – Part VI – Steam Pipes and Heat pipes
There’s a lot of energy in the vaporization phase change. In the form of water changing from a liquid into a gas, it has been at the center of most of the world’s energy production systems for the...
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Introducing Project Solaris – Towards the Conception of a Distributed Solar...
[logo for Project Solaris by Nembo Buldrini] Energy from the Sun When it comes to space exploration, energy supplying is surely one of the most limiting issues. Our Sun is the largest energy source...
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FTL Research, Philosophy, and Starship Congress 2015
Stephen Hawking, speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist Conference in the UK said: “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” There’s a lot of criticism like...
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Icarus Interstellar University of Miami Chapter
In the ever-evolving world of science, energetic innovation is key to providing students with the inspiration necessary to dive into the modern STEM workforce. We joined Icarus Interstellar as the...
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Support Icarus by Shopping at Amazon? Sure why not!
Just click on the image, shop at Amazon as you normally would and 0.5% will go to Icarus Interstellar in support of Interstellar Flight. All funds are spent in support of the program, our students...
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Project Dragonfly – Sail to the Stars
Humanity has existed for over 200,000 years. It is only about 200 years since we entered the age of industrialization, and in the last 50 years, we have discovered ways of going to the stars [1]....
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Starship Congress 2015: Interstellar Hackathon @ Drexel University,...
Starship Congress 2 announcedDrexel University, Sept 4-5 | “Interstellar Hackathon”Icarus Interstellar to convene Deep Space Scientists, Advocates on Philadelphia, PA this fall. Registration for...
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