How to Reach Interstellar Visitors, Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software

Adam Hibberd

An article I wrote for Principium, quarterly publication of the ‘Initiative for Interstellar Studies‘, several years ago now, not long after the first interstellar object passing through our Solar System was discovered, namely, 1I/’Oumuamua.

It’s about how I solved the problem of sending a mission to catch 1I/’Oumuamua using my software, ‘Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software’ (OITS), which serendipitously I had already developed just before ‘Oumuamua was discovered.

Do give it a read. It is written for a lay-person though admittedly, perhaps, it doesn’t always succeed in that regard.

Here’s a mission to interstellar object 2I/Borisov from which the stills were taken at the end of the article:

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