Deep Space Flight and Communications

Part I. Space missions to the Sun’s gravity focus (550 to 1,000 AU)

1. So much gain at 550 AU

2. Scientific investigations along the way to 550 AU

3. Magnifying the nearby stellar systems

4. Astrodynamics to exit the solar system at the highest speed

5. SETI and the FOCAL space mission

6. GL-SETI (gravitational lensing SETI): Receiving far ETI signals focused by the gravity of other stars

7. The gravitational lenses of Alpha Centauri A, B, C and of Barnard’s Star

8. The Coronal Plasma “pushing” the focus of the gravity + plasma lens far beyond 550 AU

9. NASA’s Interstellar Probe (ISP:2010–2070?) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

Part II. KLT-optimized telecommunications

10. A simple introduction to the KLT (Karhunen—Loève Transform)

11. KLT of radio signals from relativistic spaceships in uniform and decelerated motion

12. KLT of radio signals from relativistic spaceships in hyperbolic motion

13. KLT of radio signals from relativistic spaceships in arbitrary motion

14. Genetics aboard relativistic spaceships

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Relativity and Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences