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Title: Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System Post by: HCK on April 15, 2016, 04:05:17 pm Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System
Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner on Tuesday unveiled Breakthrough Starship, an ambitious $100 million effort to send miniature spacecraft to another solar system, but the program might not be quite ready to fly. It calls for a team of engineering and astrophysics experts to develop nanocrafts that could zoom to the Alpha Centauri star system at 20 percent the speed of light. Source: Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83364.html?rss=1) |