What is needed for interstellar travel?
Because of the vastness of those distances, practical interstellar travel based on known physics would need to occur at a high percentage of the speed of light; even so, travel times would be long, at least decades and perhaps millennia or longer.
Is the ship in interstellar possible?
With the discovery of potentially habitable worlds beyond the wormhole, the Endurance was designed for an unprecedented interstellar expedition….Endurance.
| Spaceship Endurance | |
|---|---|
| Velocity: Mars to Saturn | 35 km/s |
| Velocity: Wormhole approach | 325 m/s |
| Velocity: Gargantua system (outside timeshift) | 400 km/s |
Is Homestead 2 a real planet?
Homestead II is a fictional rocky planet, appearing in the 2016 film Passengers. Humans have built a settlement on the planet. The film depicts the flight from Earth to Homestead II with spacecraft Avalon, where most of the passengers are in hibernation.
What would it take to travel to interstellar space?
Most interstellar travel concepts require a developed space logistics system capable of moving millions of tons to a construction / operating location, and most would require gigawatt-scale power for construction or power (such as Star Wisp or Light Sail type concepts).
Could interstellar light-sail spacecraft be built on Earth?
Since the driving lasers would be built on Earth or in orbit, interstellar light-sail spacecraft would not need to carry fuel for the journey, and so the mass of the spacecraft could be kept small.
Can you hear anything in interstellar space?
You shouldn’t be able to hear anything in interstellar space, because it’s a near-perfect vacuum: There’s essentially no medium for the soundwaves to travel though, like air.
Is it possible to travel to interstellar space with a warp drive?
No. Seriously, this trip is going to take a while. Since warp drive is still just a fantasy, getting to interstellar space takes a really long time at present. Voyager 1, the first spacecraft to make it, was about 122 Astronomical Units (Earth is one Astronomical Unit, or AU from the Sun).