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Yuri Milner breakthrough mission to Alpha Centauri
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post Nov 15 2018, 08:53 AM
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Laser-powered nanocrafts headed to Alpha Centauri:
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Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for a new technology, enabling ultra-light unmanned space flight at 20% of the speed of light; and to lay the foundations for a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation.



Which are the engineering challenges?
http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/challenges/3

Yuri Milner twitter feed (official?): https://twitter.com/yurimilner
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- mcmcmc   Yuri Milner breakthrough mission to Alpha Centauri   Nov 15 2018, 08:53 AM
- - Gerald   Frankly speaking, this approach doesn't look l...   Nov 15 2018, 09:48 PM
|- - marsbug   QUOTE (Gerald @ Nov 15 2018, 10:48 PM) Fr...   Nov 18 2018, 12:32 PM
- - scalbers   Hard to say for me at this point, though it seems ...   Nov 15 2018, 11:43 PM
- - tanjent   QUOTE (Gerald @ Nov 16 2018, 05:48 AM) I ...   Nov 18 2018, 05:34 PM
- - Gerald   Here is a pretty detailed study of a similar appro...   Nov 19 2018, 04:12 AM
|- - marsbug   QUOTE (Gerald @ Nov 19 2018, 05:12 AM) He...   Nov 20 2018, 12:28 AM
- - JRehling   It seems like Eris and Sedna would be a nice inter...   Nov 19 2018, 07:10 PM
- - Gerald   I'm asking about the ratio of energy of the la...   Nov 20 2018, 01:05 AM
- - Gerald   If I didn't make a mistake, I got 0.5 v/c for ...   Nov 20 2018, 02:37 AM
|- - marsbug   I did some very crude calculations in bed last nig...   Nov 20 2018, 10:29 PM
- - scalbers   I'm curious if the energy imparted to the craf...   Nov 24 2018, 12:00 AM
- - Gerald   The larger the red shift between the source of lig...   Nov 24 2018, 10:19 AM
- - cIclops   From the Breakthrough Discuss virtual livestream r...   May 22 2021, 10:19 AM

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