Physicist Kelvin Long has been announced as a keynote speaker for Icarus Interstellar’s 2013 Starship Congress, with a talk titled The Rise of the Starships. Kelvin F. Long is a physicist, aerospace engineer and entrepreneur. He is the author of the book “Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight”, published by Springer. He was [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]