On the 30th <\/sup>of September over 10 years ago, Project Icarus kicked off at the BIS HQ with a symposium which included key members of the 1970s BIS Daedalus study team in attendance.\u00a0 Daedalus aimed to show that interstellar travel was feasible and produced the famous Daedalus (\u2018ICF\u2019) fusion powered 2-stage probe, still arguably one of the most complete designs for such an endeavour.\u00a0 The BIS members at the Project Icarus launch hoped to \u2018re-do\u2019 Daedalus considering some 30 years of fusion research since the \u201870s and design a new credible Icarus interstellar probe \u2013 son of Daedalus.<\/p>\n Some 5 years of hard research and design followed, and the Project Icarus team came up with several Icarus variants (based on modes of fusion and propellant), pre-eminently among them \u2018Firefly\u2019 but also others such as Resolution\/Endeavour that would become \u2018Pegasus\u2019.<\/p>\n In the subsequent years, step by step progress ensued although many outside of the project team may have thought the project had already ended, but some of the team persevered.\u00a0 They kept trying to resolve some critical issues and improve design details.\u00a0 Indeed, the whole process illustrates many interesting facets of a voluntary project team, from helping to win a US$500,000 DARPA award to almost complete breakdown and rebirth<\/p>\n The symposium on the anniversary aims to provide a \u2018book end\u2019 to BIS Project Icarus and the designs.\u00a0 If you would like to hear from those that know, key members of the Project Icarus Core Design Team, then this symposium is for you.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n