A personal perspective by Rob Swinney, Project Leader Project Icarus, Icarus Interstellar   Earlier this month Richard Osborne and I attended the ‘Future Cities 2: Other Worlds’ conference at the University of Greenwich in the School of Architecture, Design and Construction.  It’s quite hard to put in words how far out of my normal experience [...]

Divya Shankar, an Icarus Interstellar designer living in India talks to Hailey Bright about the Student Sat project which was launched in 2010, and the follow up project Student Sat 2. She also discusses her role in Icarus as a student designer on Project Longshot II. We were thrilled to support Divya’s first trip out [...]

  To a star that’s not too far (Icarus lives!)For Obousy Tziolas & KatzAll other groups with interstellar aspirationsstep back from being the first to launchmuch less to buildan actual interstellar mission. All other organizations… imagine the glorybut fail to rise above dreaming. That is not us. Let us be different. It was people exactly like [...]

  I’ve long been interested in the prospects of Faster Than Light (FTL) propulsion and so it was a pleasure to have been recently invited to give a talk at the annual EVE fanfest to be held in Reykjavik later this month: On the one hand, this avenue of research seems so contradictory to orthodox physics [...]

    This guest blog is a contribution from Glenn Thornton. Glenn is recently retired from a career at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He worked on underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site for four years and then joined the Lab’s satellite design group. He made important contributions to several satellite projects, some NASA [...]

Houston, Texas. Why is interstellar flight so challenging, and is it a goal that can be accomplished this century? What is the vacuum to antimatter rocket interstellar explorer system? These and  new technology for space travel will be discussed in this interview on interstellar flight. To attend Starship Congress, Icarus Interstellar’s conference on interstellar flight [...]

What is Project Longshot II – The Next Generation (TNG)? Project LONGSHOT-II, The Next Generation is a students’ project of ICARUS INTERSTELLAR which is aiming to revisit, update and redesign the original Project LONGSHOT. Project Longshot was an US Naval Academy’s NASA/USRA University advanced design program project report for 1987-88 carried out by seven first [...]

Over this past summer, I was in the pursuit of my Master’s thesis subject. I’ve always been interested in space exploration and settlement, and my graduate advisor, Haym Benaroya, informed me of Project Icarus. This definitely gained my interest, and he subsequently sent me the final report on Project Daedulus. After reading through the Project [...]