…Gregory Matloff and Joseph Meany explain in a new paper discussed at the Interstellar Research Group’s Montreal symposium, aerographite is both extremely low density and utterly opaque. The normal assumption…
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Interstellar Implications of the Electric Sail
Not long ago we looked at Greg Matloff’s paper on von Neumann probes, which made the case that even if self-reproducing probes were sent out only once every half million…
Sunshade: A New Trek through ‘Daedalus Country’
…lens built between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. But I discovered in a new paper from Greg Matloff (New York City College of Technology, CUNY) that it was James…
The Interstellar Ramjet at 60
…G.L. Matloff, The Starflight Handbook, Wiley, New York, 1989 25. Matloff, G., Deep-Space Probes, Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK, 2000 26. Ian A Crawford, “Direct Exoplanet Investigation Using Interstellar Space Probes.”…
How to Explain Unusual Stellar Acceleration?
…and suggest hypotheses to explain them, as in the case of the unusual acceleration of stars that has turned up in two areas. Greg Matloff has written about one of…
Breakthrough Starshot: Focus on the Sail
…even during the breaks. This is mostly the sail committee, with Jim Benford at left, Breakthrough Starshot executive director Pete Worden, Greg Benford, Rafael Fierro, and Greg Matloff. I believe…
Closing Remarks at TVIW 2017
…the stars. We also, whether or not we send Starshot sails on their journeys in 40 or 50 years, define the limits of our present technology and infuse the entire…
Beamer Technology for Reaching the Solar Gravity Focus Line
…timescales. References 1. James Benford & Gregory Matloff, “Intermediate Beamers for Starshot: Probes to the Sun’s Inner Gravity Focus”, JBIS 72, 51-55, 2019. 2. Kevin Parkin, “The Breakthrough Starshot System…
Why Fill a Galaxy with Self-Reproducing Probes?
…to start somewhere. Motivations of the Probe Builders Greg Matloff suggests in his paper on von Neumann probes that one reason a civilization might fill the galaxy with these devices…
8. Generation Starships & Comparisons With Aniara
…as generation starships: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/17/the-cathedral-and-the-starship-learning-from-the-middle-ages-for-future-long-duration-projects/ The key here is that these cathedrals became reality due to their spawning and support from a religion and its own long-lasting infrastructure. The tenants of…