Comments on: Project Daedalus – Background

By: Starflight on the Cheap – Beating the Fuel Costs — Project Icarus

Starflight on the Cheap – Beating the Fuel Costs — Project Icarus — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:33:11 +0000

[...] a “Daedalus” class star-probe, massing some 2,000 tonnes with empty tanks. The original “Project Daedalus” study fuelled the vehicle with a 50,000 tonne mixture of deuterium (worth $25,000/kg) and [...]

By: Starship economics, intestellar vehicle cost, cost of interstellar flight, starship cost — Project Icarus

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:35:59 +0000

[...] we’ll have the full ‘Daedalus Class Starship’ with a price tag of $100 [...]

By: icarus interestellar, interstellar navigation, fusion starship, fusion propulsion, Daedalus, project Daedalus — Project Icarus

Fri, 07 May 2010 03:37:11 +0000

[...] Project Icarus Team plan to follow on from Project Daedalus and design an interstellar spaceship. A few questions might spring to mind, such as, ‘amazing, how you gonna do that’? Or perhaps, [...]

By: Project Icarus, Project Daedalus, Interstellar Travel, Interstellar technology, interstellar propulsion, travel to the stars — Project Icarus

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:15:34 +0000

[...] Daedalus” was inspired by advances in nuclear fusion technology as well as the 1960s “Orion” nuclear pulse rocket. The apparently rapid developments in laser and electron beam initiation of fusion in the early [...]

By: Interstellar Navigation, Project Icarus, Project Daedalus, Interstellar propulsion, starship, fusion drive, fusion propulsion — Project Icarus

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:34:05 +0000

[...] no longer ‘fixed’ in the sky, how would you navigate then? This was the question asked by the Daedalus team in the 1970s as they planned their flight out of the solar system to Barnard’s star. Despite [...]

By: Project Icarus, fusion proplsion, pulsed fusion engine, Nuclear Propulsion, Nuclear Engine — Project Icarus

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:50:52 +0000

[...] it is necessary to understand some of the history of how Project Daedalus came about. It is generally accepted that the nuclear pulse propulsion scheme as proposed by [...]

By: The Fermi Paradox, Project Daedalus, Project Icarus — Project Icarus

The Fermi Paradox, Project Daedalus, Project Icarus — Project Icarus — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:57:29 +0000

[...] people read about The British Interplanetary Society Project Daedalus they usually marvel at the boldness of the idea and the amount of thought that went into the [...]