NASA is investigating the feasibility of conducting extra-solar and interstellar missions over the next 10 to 50 years. An assessment of technologies supporting these near and far term objectives is required. To help meet these objectives the Principal Investigator assessed the f
Selection note: Curated for a contractor assessment of candidate propulsion systems for an Interstellar Probe mission to the heliopause and beyond, including near- and far-term technology framing.
Evidence boundary: NTRS lists open full text, but this pass did not reproduce the assessment or update its assumptions. It is historical trade-space context, not automatic evidence of propulsion readiness.
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ntrs-20000021228
Topic
propulsion
Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Publisher
Marshall Space Flight Center
Authors
Forward, Robert L.
Year
2000
Editorial state
metadata curated editorial draft
Reviewer
GShips Project editorial synthesis
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2026-07-25
Source-supplied abstract
NASA is investigating the feasibility of conducting extra-solar and interstellar missions over the next 10 to 50 years. An assessment of technologies supporting these near and far term objectives is required. To help meet these objectives the Principal Investigator assessed the feasibility of candidate propulsion systems for the proposed 'Interstellar Probe', a mission to send a spacecraft to the Heliopause at 250 AU and beyond.
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