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Title    Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100 Million Interstellar Spacecraft Plan
Date    Wednesday April 13 2016, @02:48AM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the that's-a-tiny-spaceship dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/04/12/1952257

turgid writes:

The BBC and the Guardian both carry stories about an unmanned interstellar spacecraft designed to reach the Alpha Centauri system "within a generation" (30 or so years).

The spacecraft would be miniaturised to the size of an average silicon chip, and be propelled by a solar sail which would receive a boost from a powerful laser on the Earth.

Milner's Breakthrough Foundation is running a project, backed by Hawking, to research the technologies needed for such a mission, which they think will soon be feasible.

takyon: The campaign is called Breakthrough Starshot. Breakthrough Initiatives also announced the release of initial observational datasets from the Breakthrough Listen 10-year SETI effort.

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Links
  1. "turgid" - https://soylentnews.org/~turgid/
  2. "BBC" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36025706
  3. "the Guardian" - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/12/stephen-hawking-and-yuri-milner-launch-100m-star-voyage
  4. "Breakthrough Starshot" - http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/News/4
  5. "also announced" - http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/News/3
  6. "initial observational datasets" - http://www.breakthroughinitiatives.org/OpenDataSearch
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13161
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