Re:Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:32PM
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Where are you getting either of these figures?
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Re:Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
by jvanderbot on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:33AM
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The up to 18km/s is from the linked shield.
Up to 0.1c is from the interstellar spaceship competition "cruise" speeds (also used 0.01c) as presented in their deck.
They're a few orders of magnitude difference.
Also, there's plenty of resources around on interstellar travel that shows interstellar dust/debris is going to be a huge problem.
For example Atomic Rockets, which has a bunch of good reference materials (albeit poorly organized), or the Astronomy Cafe
https://sten.astronomycafe.net/at-what-speed-does-the-inters...