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Don't Forget To Look Up
Philip Lubin, Alexander N. Cohen
We discuss a hypothetical existential threat from a 10 km diameter bolide discovered 6 months prior to impact with one case being a comet and the other being an asteroid. We show t…
The Economics of Interstellar Flight
Philip Lubin, Alexander N. Cohen
Large scale directed energy offers the possibility of radical transformation in a variety of areas, including the ability to achieve relativistic flight that will enable the first…
Radiation Effects from ISM and Cosmic Ray Particle Impacts on Relativistic Spacecraft
Philip Lubin, Alexander N. Cohen, Jacob Erlikhman
Relativistic spacecraft, like those proposed by the NASA Starlight program and the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, will have to survive radiation production that is unique when c…
The First Interstellar Astronauts Will Not Be Human
Stephen Lantin, Sophie Mendell, Ghassan Akkad +9
Our ability to explore the cosmos by direct contact has been limited to a small number of lunar and interplanetary missions. However, the NASA Starlight program points a path forwa…
Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation
Jon Drobny, Alexander N. Cohen, Davide Curreli +3
As part of the NASA Starlight collaboration, we look at the implications of radiation effects from impacts with the interstellar medium (ISM) on a directed energy driven relativist…