Four new crew profiles have been added to the ISDC careers site.

Crew profiles provide an insight into different roles throughout the ISDC and are intended to inspire future recruits. They include an overview of the profiled member’s current role and an insight into how they came to join the ISDC.

Crew profiles also provide valuable insights for existing members into the work being undertaken in different areas of the organisation.

Design refinements and rough-in systems integration has now commenced on the concept spaceframe, starting with the radio telescope array.

The ISDC’s interstellar vessel has a name chosen from history: Endeavour.

Referred to as “the vessel’ until now, Endeavour has been named after the vessel Captain Cook sailed on his world-changing voyage of exploration in 1768. Pictured is a replica of Endeavour based at the Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.

The naval architecture team have begun exploring designs for the exterior of the ISDC’s interstellar vessel, with a couple of rounds of design concepts already completed.

The team is guided by the ISDC’s vessel design principles which outline factors such as how long the vessel should be expected to stay in deep space, what she could expect to have to defend herself against and the conditions that her crew should expect aboard.

The ISDC’s third generation of websites are about to be launched.

The new site design recognises the complexities of presenting the dual aspects of immersive sci-fi. The first aspect is a highly-realistic simulated environment where everything is presented as real, while the second aspect is an online TV show. Each aspect now has its own look and feel.

From the first round of high-level vessel design approaches, Option 03 was chosen to develop into the second round of sketches.

Changes in this pass included:

Welcome to the Thread of Naval Architecture, where you can participate in the discussion of continued development of the ISDC's first Ship capable of true deep space travel.

A few key constraints and points which have informed the design so far bear reitterating:

The ISDC’s Generation Program has released an overview of the fusion reactor’s coolant system, coinciding with the commencement of system prototyping. This prototyping is an important next step in the development of a working power system for vessel construction