4. Strategies for Rapid Implementation of Interstellar Missions: Precursors and Beyond

Papers

1. A Vision for Planetary and Exoplanets Science: Exploration of the Interstellar Medium – the Space between Stars

2. Near-Term Exploration of the Interstellar Medium

3. High-Speed Magnetic-Sail Interstellar Precursor Missions Enabled by Metastable Metallic Hydrogen

4. The breakthrough initiatives: a new search for life in the universe. S. Pete Worden and Pete Klupar1 Break-through Prize Foundation, 3000 Sand Hill Road, 4-180, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, pete@breakthroughprize.org.

5. Earth-to-orbit Beamed Energy eXperiment (EBEX)

6. Effects of Enhanced Graphene Reflection on Performance of Sun-Launched Starwisp Probes

7. Case Study of a Mission to Epsilon Eridani: Unmanned Interstellar Probe Using Gas Core Nuclear Reactors with Early 21st Century Technology

8. Interstellar Flight via the Extraction of Orbital Energy from Asteroids using Lorentz-Force-Actuated Ricochet Maneuvers of Pellet Streams

9. Unsupervised Learning to Compensate for High Latency in Interstellar and Other Planetary Exploration