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Adam Hibberd
@adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social
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I developed the software which was used to solve the problem of catching up with the first interstellar object to be discovered, 1I/'Oumuamua, Project Lyra. I am a researcher for the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is).
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My existential thought of the day, read my latest blog:

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Existential Thought of the Day
Adam Hibberd Human existence, and for that matter all life, has been a story of death. Observe that life attempts to preserve itself by defying death. In fact evolution is simply an attempt by the …
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November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I've updated my blog:
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Missions to Comet 2014 UN271
Adam Hibberd A colour contour plot showing direct missions to object 2014 UN271, otherwise known as ‘BB’ in honour of its discoverers Bernardinelli and Bernstein. This comet is huge (~ …
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November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Go to my personal blog, here:

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The ‘Apocalypse Plot’
Adam Hibberd Below is a plot that expresses how much ‘DeltaV’ or in other words, ‘change in velocity’ would be needed to be applied to the asteroid Apophis, at different tim…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A Little research I conducted into a trajectory I invented to allow a spacecraft to exit the Solar System, even faster than a Jupiter Oberth Manoeuvre (JOM).

It turns out to be quite disappointing actually.

Go here:

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The Double Jupiter Gravitational Assist (DJGA) for Escaping the Solar System
Adam Hibberd I’ve been investigating the Double Jupiter Gravitational Assist (DJGA) and comparing it with the ordinary Single Jupiter Gravitational Assist (SJGA) which we know well and is pro…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Elon’s Starship to Launch Project Lyra?
Adam Hibberd Yesterday I was trying to gauge the measure of the SpaceX Starship in terms of its ability to launch the Project Lyra spacecraft on its way to its destination. BTW Project Lyra is the …
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November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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3I/ATLAS Mission to Launch in 2035
Adam Hibberd As a consequence of exploring the Solar Oberth option to catch up with 3I/ATLAS I have, using my software development Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software (OITS), discovered that…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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My latest blog which talks about a possible Solar Oberth trajectory to catch up with 3I/ATLAS with launch in 10 years time, and with a 20 year flight duration. The DeltaV needed at the Oberth is still very high, and would need 2-3 chemical rocket stages.
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3I/ATLAS Mission to Launch in 2035
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November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My latest blog:

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Project Lyra Meets the President
Adam Hibberd My letter to the president, written a few years after 1I/’Oumuamua was discovered and the Project Lyra work had largely drawn to a conclusion, is now looking rather stale since 3…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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My latest blog. Oh dear, oh dear, more grist to the mill that 3I/ATLAS might be alien technology. For those of you intolerant to such ideas, ignore.

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3I/ATLAS: The Switch from Anti-Tail to Tail.
Adam Hibberd Avi Loeb references an observation I had made about the ‘anti-tail’ and ‘tail’ of 3I/ATLAS, possibly indicating alien technology. It seems that 3I/ATLAS’s…
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November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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My latest blog:

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The Nascent Engineer at School
Adam Hibberd Just been remembering my strange experience at Stoke Park Comprehensive School. In particular, this one occasion when my friends and I were sitting down to have our packed lunch in the…
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October 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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STARMER = Sycophantic Trump Admirer Really Manages to Embarrass Royalty
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Thoughts about Satire
Adam Hibberd Woken up today with a mild case of racing thoughts, none of which do me any favours, in fact they are quite self-destructive. So how do I turn these thoughts off and focus? Well how ab…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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My latest blog:

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University Take-Away
Adam Hibberd Not sure what my mate SAG at university would have advised for me to do now my mental health is worsening. His wonderful facility at igniting his own farts using a cigarette lighter wa…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Go to my research papers here:

www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam...
Adam HIBBERD | - | Bachelor of Science | Research profile
I developed Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software in 2017 and later that year used it to solve the problem of sending a spacecraft mission to catch and intercept 1I/'Oumuamua, the first interstel...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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My memoirs:

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October 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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My latest blog:

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A Reckoning
Adam Hibberd Some of you may remember my blog a while ago concerning the first meeting with my new consultant psychiatrist which turned out to be rather a failure since after plainly stating to him…
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October 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Telescopes probably won't resolve this debate, we need a mission.
For example, go to this paper for which I did the astrodynamics:

arxiv.org/abs/2402.18691
Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances
Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life
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October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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My latest blog:

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Pure Innocence
Adam Hibberd I have something to confide with you. This is a story which attests to my naivety and innocence. So a couple of days ago I went for my occasional evening constitutional. I say ‘e…
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October 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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My latest blog:

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DIY Fortune
Adam Hibberd A week of changing fortunes. It was my job to hang up a huge painting we have in the front room. The room had just recently been decorated, and the new wallpaper obviously obscured the…
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September 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Go to my latest blog, here:

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The Experience
Adam Hibberd My experience of my new consultant was a mildly interesting one. Firstly he phoned me twice before the 2pm appointment, on both occasions seeking to advance the appointment by half an …
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September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The Mars Conveyor belt, go to my latest personal blog here:

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Belt-up for the Conveyor Belt
Adam Hibberd Some of you may already know all about the eponymous ‘Aldrin Cycler’, otherwise known as the ‘Mars Conveyor Belt’. This is the wonderful astrodynamical quirk of…
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September 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My latest blog:

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The Grand Tour, Revisited
Adam Hibberd Towards the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025, I was asked by a friend from Space Initiatives Inc. (a US company), to look into the possibility of a mission from Earth to encounter 4-5…
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September 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My latest blog, off theme:

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Extreme Measures Necessary
Adam Hibberd In a wild and frantic attempt at seeming normal on the Bumble dating app, I have taken the extreme measure of no longer parading any of my talents which before were clearly putting any…
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September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Personal shenanigans, go to my latest blog:

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Humble Bumble
Adam Hibberd Way, way past time I found a partner in life, as I have been reminded by certain unnamed parties with crass condescension. Yes. yes I know what you are thinking, I’m just far too…
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September 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My latest personal blog about the USSR Venus-bound Venera probes and their launch from Earth into an escape trajectory.

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Venera Launch
Adam Hibberd I’m doing a bit of research into the USSR Venera-2 mission to Venus.Although inserted into the correct interplanetary escape orbit, it turned out to be a failure when communicati…
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September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM