Breakthrough Starshot
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title:
Breakthrough Starshot
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Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.34 light-years away. It was founded in 2016 by Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg. A flyby mission has been proposed to Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its host star, Proxima Centauri, in the Alpha
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Interstellar probe project
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
date created:
2016-04-12T23:26:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T20:42:05Z
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