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... '''Keywords''' - Heliopause probe, solar sail, gravity assists, interstellar travel '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.59 '''Number of Pages''' - 4 Abstract Techniques are investigated that allow the possibility of near-ecliptic exploration beyond the Sun's heliopause (200 AU) using contemporary solar-sail spacecraft (with areal mass thickness about 0.0082 kg ...

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 61 61 '''Page ''' - 279-283 '''Year''' - 2008 '''Keywords''' - Interstellar precursor missions, Ion propulsion, Dual-stage ion thruster, High specific impulse, Nuclear fission power, High ... - stage gridded ion thruster can provide a velocity increment and specific impulse of interest to interstellar precursor missions. Assuming a total mission duration of about 30 years and a launch into ...

... '''Year''' - 2000 '''Keywords''' - '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2000.53.48 '''Number of Pages''' - 14 Abstract Solar sails have long been considered for a range of future mission applications. Most of these applications ... as a means of efficient, low thrust propulsion for orbit transfer. For this reason solar sailing has historically been neglected in favour of electric propulsion, which has seen considerable development in ...

... Volume 65 65 '''Page ''' - 283-285 '''Year''' - 2012 '''Keywords''' - Embryo Space Colonization, Interstellar Studies '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2012.65.283 '''Number of Pages''' - 3 Abstract ... of the mission thereby necessitating greater speed with the aforementioned challenges. Near-term solar-sail technology could be sufficient to launch an ESC mission once human ectogenetic ...

... solar-photon-sail materials is a worthy goal. A review of previous research on partially transmissive metallic sail films for interstellar application reveals that various parameters influence maximum interstellar cruise velocity for given sail materials ... roots of sail areal mass density and wavelength averaged reflectivity and absorption are also influential, followed in significance by the fourth-root of the ratio of emissivity and absorption. Since interstellar sails are ...

... Robotic Interstellar Exploration, a group was formed to analyze potential beamed power systems for interstellar exploration. Three "strawman" missions were proposed, culminating in a practical interstellar flyby. In addition, a "roadmap" of near-term missions ...

... the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 64 64 '''Page ''' - 107-115 '''Year''' - 2011 '''Keywords''' - Icarus, interstellar flight, technology development '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2011.64.107 '''Number of Pages''' - 9 Abstract This ... launch an interstellar probe by around the year 2100. This depends upon significant and sustained science and technology research investment being made, particularly into space propulsion engineering in the near-term. This paper ...

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 58 58 '''Page ''' - 268-278 '''Year''' - 2005 '''Keywords''' - Near Earth asteroids, deflection, impact mitigation, nuclear and solar electric propulsion '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2005.58 ... spacecraft, using electric propulsion and nuclear/solar power technologies likely to be available in the near-term, within the constraints of a single heavy launch into low Earth orbit. Preliminary design concepts ...

... of a near-Sun perihelion propulsive maneuver, solar sails, and large fission-reactor-powered nuclear electric propulsion systems. We present an alternative approach - the Innovative Interstellar Explorer - based on Radioisotope Electric Propulsion. A high-energy, current-technology launch of the small spacecraft is followed by long-term, lowthrust, ...

... currently existing sail materials and departure from the present-day Sun. Improvements in sail material technology and departure from more luminous stars may greatly reduce interstellar transit time. During interstellar cruise, the sail could be wrapped around the habitat to provide cosmic ray shielding. The sail could ...

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