| Browse Files | |
Tin Tin Interstellar Cubesat Space Probe | ||
Rating: 0 Favourites: 0 Report File |
Tin Tin Interstellar Cubesat Space ProbeFile Information
Files
|
More From This User |
Full scale model of a cubesat based interstellar probe based on an actual project and study from Icarus Interstellar. Great briefing was part of the Icarus Interstellar 2013 Workshop Schedule | Icarus Interstellar . Project page at Project Tin Tin | Icarus Interstellar .
From Dr Tziolas paper: Currently there are no interstellar exploration missions planned or in progress. Even the Voyager spacecraft will not pass close to a neighboring solar system for tens of thousands of years. The pursuit of deep space and interstellar exploration studies has recently become a matter of critical debate, with Icarus Interstellar and the 100 Year Star Ship (100 YSS) program drawing attention to the merits of pressing the boundaries of current and near future technologies towards such goals. Project Tin Tin is a mission profile and spacecraft design feasibility program which aims to establish the science, propulsion, communications, power and materials which will be used to build interstellar precursor missions using cubesats. The mission objectives are (a) to establish a program of utilizing space systems miniaturization technologies, (b) to create a template mission and spacecraft package for space-proofing interstellar systems and (c) to launch the first ever interstellar spacecraft to Alpha Centauri. In this paper and presentation we establish that an interstellar journey to our nearest star is feasible within 25,000 years using current technology, cutting Voyager’s best time to a nearest star by a factor of 1/3, with reasonable room for improvements. |