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STEPS REMAINING

"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."

~ Carl Sagan.

 

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QUESTIONS

  • Minimum sustainable population size for planning world ships
  • Minimum requirements per person (energy, volume, biological throughputs [water, food/waste, air])
  • Maximum demonstrated rocket specific impulse (empirical, not theoretical)
  • Minimum energy required to send a detectable signal back to Earth from 4.5 light-years distant
  • Maximum demonstrated reliable operational duration for contemporary spacecraft hardware
  • Best demonstrated pointing accuracy for beamed energy
  • Distance within where Earth's civilization would be detectable by an ET using same SETI detection technology as currently used on Earth.

 

 

TASK RECOMMENDATIONS ON HAND

Human Relevance

Popular Perceptions of Starflight (Anthropological study) (1yr)

Suggested by Kathryn Denning, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada

Who Would Go? (Anthropological study) (1yr)

Suggested by Kathryn Denning, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada

The Big Question: "Will humanity survive beyond its extinction on Earth?" (Web utility) (1yr)

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Claudio Maccone, Technical Director, International Academy of Astronautics for Scientific Space Exploration

Ed Zampino, NASA Glenn Research Center

Dana Andrews, Tau Zero Foundation

Science and Fiction in the Golden Age: Starflight in the Popular Imagination (Book) (2yr)

Suggested by Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams, Tau Zero Foundation

Confronting Contentious Social Issues via Colony Ship Contemplations (Anthropological study) (2yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Possible Practitioner: Kathryn Denning, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada

Educating Tomorrow's Pioneers

From Science Fiction to Frontiers of Science (Documentary series pilot) (2yr)

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Geoff Landis, NASA Glenn Research Center

Student Interstellar Studies Guide to Colleges and Subject Selections (Web utility) (1yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Geoff Landis, NASA Glenn Research Center

Public Companion Book to "Frontiers of Propulsion Science" (Book) (2yr)

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

What's Out There

Statistical Living Drake & Fermi Equation (Web utility) (1yr)

Claudio Maccone, Technical Director, International Academy of Astronautics for Scientific Space Exploration

Celestial Body Magnetic Fields Assessment (Feasibility study) (1yr)

Suggested by George Hathaway, Hathaway Consulting, Toronto Canada

Habitable World Statistical Estimations (Web utility) (1yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

For Claudio Maccone, Technical Director, International Academy of Astronautics for Scientific Space Exploration

Idea for Maggie Turnbull, Astronomer/Astrobiologist at Global Science Institute

Interstellar Navigation – Provisional System Design Study (1yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

and 2nd Lt. Ryan Gauntt, Graduate Student, US Airforce Institute of Technology (2010)

Getting There – Overall Assessments & Colony Ships

Biological Adaptations for Colony Ships and Planetary Settlement (Book) (1yr)

Athena Andreadis, University of Massachusetts Medical School & author The Biology of Star Trek

Energy Bounds of Interstellar Flight (Optimized equations for energy, power, thrust, etc) (1yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Jim Gilland, Ohio Aerospace Institute

Adam Crowl, Crowl Space Consulting

Minimal Colony Ship (Requirement Definition study) (1yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Millennial Reliability for Star Ships (Technology and requirements assessment) (1yr)

Ralph McNutt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Ed Zampino, NASA Glenn Research Center

Autonomous In-flight Repair (Technology assessment) (2yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Getting There – With Next-Step Technology

2025 Interstellar Precursor Baseline Technology (Study) (2yr)

Jean-Luc Cambier, USAF

Solar Sail Mission Business Plan (High school or undergraduate student project) (1yr)

Suggested by Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Solar Sail Mission Optimizations (Detailed factors assessment) (1yr)

Greg Matloff, New York City College of Technology

Directed Energy-Driven Starcraft (Economic assessment model development) (1yr)

James Benford, Microwave Sciences

Nuclear Power Plant Design (CSNR Summer Fellow design project) (1yr)

Prepared by Steve Howe, Center for Space Nuclear Research, Idaho Falls

Secondary Propulsion Options for Interstellar Spacecraft (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Optical Communication for Interstellar Exploration (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Interstellar Launch Infrastructure (Technology) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Interstellar Energy Infrastructure – using foreseeable technology (Design study) (2yr)

Suggested by Gerald Nordley

Jim Benford

Experimental Characterization of Sail Beam Lasers on Dielectric Films (2yr)

Suggested by Jordin Kare, Intellectual Ventures, and Chief Scientist for LaserMotive

FOCAL – 1st Relativistic Space Probe (Graduate student vehicle system-level design project) (1yr)

2nd Lt Berkley R. Davis, Graduate Student, USAF Institute of Technology, Dayton OH

Claudio Maccone, Technical Director, International Academy of Astronautics for Scientific Space Exploration

Col Tim Lawrence, USAF Institute of Technology AETC/EN, Dayton OH

Getting There – With Technology at its Edge

Impact Fusion Runway (aka Bussard Buzz-Bomb) (Feasibility study) (1yr)

Suggested by Jordin Kare, Intellectual Ventures, and Chief Scientist for LaserMotive

Icarus Development Roadmap (Study) 1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Antimatter Production Infrastructure Requirements (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Fusion Power & Propulsion for Interstellar Precursors (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion for Interstellar Precursors (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Ultradense Deuterium for Fusion Propulsion (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Timeline to Launch (Technology assessment) (1yr)

Suggested by Project Icarus Study Group, Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society

Getting There – With Ease –Pursuing Revolutionary Propulsion Physics

Propulsion Using Vacuum Stresses on Dynamic Microstructured Sails (Theoretical assessment) (1yr)

Jordan Maclay, Chief Scientist, Quantum Fields LLC

Thought Experiments with Relative Inertial Frames (Theoretical assessment) (1yr)

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Experimental Tests of Optical Analogy (Experimental assessment) (2yr)

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Models for superluminal communication (Design of experiment) (1yr)

Jordan Maclay, Chief Scientist, Quantum Fields LLC

Yakir Aharonov Tel Aviv

John Cramer, U. Washington

Marlan Scully, TAMU,

Kent Peacock, UAlberta

Gravitational Tacking for Interstellar Travel (Theoretical assessment) (1yr)

Jordan Maclay, Chief Scientist, Quantum Fields LLC

Martin Tajmar, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

Geoffrey Landis, NASA Glenn, Cleveland OH

Claudio Maccone, Technical Director, International Academy of Astronautics for Scientific Space Exploration

Simulating Space Warps with Metamaterials (Design of experiment) (2yr)

Eric Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, TX

Experimental Test of Dobyn's Inertial Wheel Analogy (1yr)

Eric Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, TX

Independent Testing Facility for Low-Thrust Unconventional Propulsion Claims (Business Plan) (1yr)

George Hathaway, Hathaway Consulting, Toronto Canada

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH

Applying Post-1950's Data to 1890's Attempts at Mach's Principle (Theoretical assessment) (1yr)

Marc Millis, Tau Zero Foundation, Cleveland OH