[1] Project Icarus was an initiative of members of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) and the Tau Zero Foundation (TZF) started in 2009.
[2] An international team of scientists and engineers was assembled and a number of papers were published on many aspects of Interstellar flight during the active phase of the project.
"[citation needed] These goals are to be achieved by technical reports on engineering layout, functionality, physics, operation and other aspects of such an interstellar ship.
[6] While Daedalus had relied on helium-3 propulsion depending on mining Neptune or Jupiter to produce sufficient helium-3; several other fuel sources and fusion types were researched.
During a final workshop at the British Interplanetary Society in October 2013 a team from the WARR student group of the Technical University of Munich under the leadership of Andreas M. Hein was nominated as the winner.
The Project Team was worldwide group made up of volunteers who were members of Icarus Interstellar or of the British Interplanetary Society.