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    Title

    Strategies for Rapid Implementation of Interstellar Missions: Precursors and Beyond

    Description

    Knowledge about space beyond our solar system and between the stars—that is interstellar space —is lacking data. Even as IBEX, NASA’s Interstellar Background Explorer, studies the edge of our solar system, it still is confined to earth orbit. Arguably, some of the most compelling data to understand the universe we live in will come from sampling the actual environment beyond our solar system as Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are on the threshold of doing. In the 36 years since the Voyager probes’ launches, significant advances in materials science, analytical chemistry, information technologies, imaging capabilities, communications and propulsion systems have been made. The recently released IAA study: “Key Technologies to Enable Near-Term Interstellar Scientific Precursor Missions” along with significant initiatives like the DARPA seed-funded 100 Year Starship, signal the need, readiness and benefits to aggressively undertaking interstellar space missions. This session seeks to define specific strategies and key enabling steps to implement interstellar precursor missions within the next 10-15 years. Suggestions for defined projects, payloads, teams, spacecraft and mission profiles that leverage existing technological capacities, yet will yield probes that generate new information about deep space, rapidly exit the solar system and which can be launched before 2030 are sought.

    Date

    2017-09-29

    Time

    11:00

    Room

    Riverbank 4

    IPC members
    • Co-Chair: Dr. Mae Jemison, 100 Year Starship, United States;

    • Co-Chair: Prof. Giancarlo Genta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy;

    • Rapporteur: Dr. Louis Friedman, The Planetary Society, United States;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

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

    13

    confirmed

    Dr. Leon Alkalai

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    United States

    2

    Near-Term Exploration of the Interstellar Medium

    13

    confirmed

    Dr. Ralph L. McNutt, Jr.

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    United States

    3

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

    13

    confirmed

    Mr. Adam Crowl

    Initiative for Interstellar Studies

    Australia

    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.

    13

    confirmed

    Mr. Jamie Drew

    NASA

    United States

    5

    Earth-to-orbit Beamed Energy eXperiment (EBEX)

    13

    no-show

    Mr. Les Johnson

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center

    United States

    6

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

    13

    no-show

    Prof. Gregory Matloff

    New York City College of Technology

    United States

    7

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

    13

    confirmed

    Dr. Ugur Guven

    UN CSSTEAP

    United States

    8

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

    13

    confirmed

    Prof. Andrew Higgins

    McGill University

    Canada

    9

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

    13

    confirmed

    Mr. Andrew Jones

    North Dakota State University

    United States