100 Year Starship Star Map
Military has chosen mae jemison s nonprofit foundation to receive half a million dollars in seed funding to help turn the 100 year starship into reality.
100 year starship star map. Dave neyland director of darpa s tactical technology office said that the 100 year starship name was chosen because it would require a long range sustainable effort to get our species to other stars. For example the sky will look different to someone in turkey at 6 pm than it would to someone looking up in brazil at 6 am. And since the earth is constantly moving our logo features different stars based on where you are and what time it is. The 100 year starship 100yss is a joint u s.
Former astronaut mae jemison whose proposal was selected earlier this year will lead the new independent organization. It s a dynamic star map that shows the closest star to you directly overhead when you look up. The goal of the study is to create a business plan that can foster the research and technology needed for interstellar travel within 100 years. The database provides the star positions as right ascension declination and distance so i did a bit of preprocessing of the data to convert it into simple xyz coordinates.
This brought the. The 100 year starship project has the goal of making the science and technology available so humanity will be capable of deep space interstellar flight beyond our solar system within a 100 years. The 100 year starship project faces the challenge of transforming the 500 000 from the defense advanced research projects agency. The idea is to have a self sustaining business model or enterprise that the organization can operate under that will last for the next hundred years that will eventually once day lead to the development of a starship.
Warp drive and wormholes neyland said that the focus of the endeavor is to identify. Preceding unsigned comment added by 65 116 131 6 18 07 1 september 2011 utc 100 years starship ins t about mars. Since this project was meant to showcase the stars nearest to ours i thought i would cull the list down by excluding any stars that were many hundreds of light years away. This means that instead of waiting until the necessity of building a starship to.
May 22 2012 an ambitious effort for an interstellar travel planning organization officially kicked off this week after darpa awarded 500 000 to form the 100 year starship initiative. They are sponsors of the 100 year starship 100yss initiative headed up by astronaut mae jemison. The goal is to ensure that. Looking at history most significant exploration like crossing oceans or continents for the first time was sponsored by patrons or groups outside of government neyland said in a darpa statement.
100 year starship this logo is made from stars. And since the earth is constantly moving our logo features different stars based on where you are and what time it is. This century starship initiative has been running around a year now it would be good to see some initial findings. The 100 year starship effort was announced by nasa ames research center director pete.
The purpose of the 100yss is. Star trek s bold vision of the starship enterprise manned by a diverse crew may no longer just be science fiction especially with the first woman astronaut of color heading the real life project.