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 [...]

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 [...]

Icarus Interstellar accepting titles and abstracts NOW. THIS IS A CALL FOR PAPERS Selected presentations will be invited to appear in a special edition of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Final Abstracts Due: 15th July, 2013 Notification of Paper Acceptance: Ongoing 15th-18th August, 2013 Dallas, TX, USA Starship Congress will bring together the [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]