June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... own field of study. The question of classification It is best to start with organising the array of interstellar travel projects. An interstellar travel project must contain a description of the technology that can be used to conquer the distances...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... is about half the mass of a large aircraft carrier. However, whether or not ICF propulsion can be used for interstellar travel depends on solving several problems. For example, the beams that compress the fuel pellet need to be highly...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...the early 1960s banning nuclear weapons in space this concept ceased to be pursued. An interesting, alternative approach to interstellar travel is to keep the fuel on Earth and ‘beam’ the energy to a spacecraft. This directed-energy propulsion relies...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... “Global warming, exhaustion of natural resources and worldwide pollution may be spelling out an inconvenient truth necessitating interstellar travel for solutions.” After a 780-day top secret mission, the US Air Force X-37B spaceplane landed at NASA...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
Interstellar travel is a lifelong dream of humanity and there is no doubt that the duration and frequency of human spaceflights will increase in ...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... mission or the 100-year Starship project) have recently started to consider these ‘world ships’ as a viable means of interstellar travel. Multi-generational spacecraft are often envisaged as huge, city-sized structures, but are such vast ships...
