The award-winning Hilton Anatole has kindly provided a discounted room rate for Starship Congress participants, valid between August 12 and August 20, 2013, allowing our guests to come early and leave late to spend a few days exploring Dallas and nearby attractions. You can sign up for the special rate and get all of your...
Icarus Interstellar has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for Starship Congress. “Imagine collectively experiencing the progressive thoughts and unencumbered designs of the world’s leading spacecraft designers, engineers, and astro-theorists. Picture for a moment, attending a forum where scientists, physicists, engineers, researchers, urban designers, representatives from international space programs and present-day commercial space...
Dr. Gerald Cleaver, Associate Professor of Physics at Baylor University and member of Icarus Interstellar’s X-Physics Propulsion & Power Project (XP4) team talks with Hailey Bright. Dr Cleaver discusses chiral fermion breaking as an alternative way for creating matter antimatter particles from the quantum vacuum in-situ for propulsion. This is a fascinating area of theoretical...
Physicist Dr. John Hunter has been announced as a speaker for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 Starship Congress, with the following talk: Jules Verne 2.0 — The Hydrogen Gas Gun: Part of the Interstellar Roadmap. Dr. Hunter obtained a Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics at The College of William and Mary in 1984. He was the SHARP...
Architects Giorgio Gaviraghi and André Caminoa have been announced as speakers for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 Starship Congress, with the following three talks: Critical Path and Interstellar Routes, Code of Ethics for Alien Encounters, and A Kardashev III Approach to Extra-Solar Planetary System Colonization. Giorgio Gaviraghi received his Architectural degree in 1968 at the Milan Polytechnic...
Nuclear engineer Dr. Pavel Tsvetkov has been announced as a keynote speaker for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 Starship Congress. His talk will focus on the fission-fragment rocket, a rocket engine design that directly harnesses hot nuclear fission products for thrust, rather than using a separate fluid as working mass. More details and an abstract for the session will be posted soon to this...
A star is a distant stellar objective, burning nuclear reactions at its core, releasing fusion energy and radiating outwards across all matter and fields in its path. A ship is a vessel that will take passengers or cargo from A to B, from here to there or from there to here. So, you want to...
Research Physicist and Icarus Interstellar Advisory Board Member Dr. Eric Davis has been announced as a speaker for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 Starship Congress, with a talk titled Faster-Than-Light Space Warps: What’s It All About? Eric is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and...
Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Dr. Terry Kammash, has been announced as a speaker for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 interstellar flight conference Starship Congress, with a talk titled Fission or Fusion for Interstellar Missions. Dr. Kammash is the Stephen S. Attwood Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan....
Physicist and software developer Charles J. Quarra has been announced as a speaker for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 Starship Congress, with a talk titled ”The Laser Star Way: A Light Bridge to the closest Stars.” Mr. Quarra was influenced early on in his life by two books: The Science in Science Fiction by Peter Nicholls, and The Cosmic...
Have a look at this Project Icarus Team Members Map, and see where all the Project Icarus team are located. Thanks to Tiffany Frierson for putting this map together.
