Interstaller Starshot Project

[Tagiscom]

Saw this on Cosmos, and had to find it online.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08/interstellar-starshot-project-update.html

Or if they can secure funding, 1 billion initially, then they may be ready to launch in 5 years time.

Then 24 years, and we will be seeing closeup images of a potentially habitable world!

Or the year 2050.

And that is Alpha Centauri, which is roughly 4 light years away, at 24% light speed.

Edited March 24, 2020 by Tagiscom
What we really need at this time of trouble is strict displine and to be serious.

[Lanfear63]

15 hours ago, Tagiscom said:

Saw this on Cosmos, and had to find it online.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08/interstellar-starshot-project-update.html

Or if they can secure funding, 1 billion initially, then they may be ready to launch in 5 years time.

Then 24 years, and we will be seeing closeup images of a potentially habitable world!

Or the year 2050.

And that is Alpha Centauri, which is roughly 4 light years away, at 24% light speed.

I understand these are tiny spacecraft. Has Riffle volunteered to pilot one of them? 

[Princess Balestra]

Sounds like an initiative kinda puckered from the start.

Speshly now we all locked down an' stuff.

[Tagiscom]

9 hours ago, Lanfear63 said:

I understand these are tiny spacecraft. Has Riffle volunteered to pilot one of them? 

Groan not saying, but at least this subject isn't too off topic for the off topic section!

[Claude Whitacre]

On 3/23/2020 at 9:44 PM, Tagiscom said:

And that is Alpha Centauri, which is roughly 4 light years away, at 24% light speed.

Shane...You need to look up what Light speed is...and what a light year is.

Yeah, I saw it, and these near microscopic "probes" would have to stay in the laser light,  for millions of miles to attain anything close to 24% of the speed of light. 

[Tagiscom]

1 hour ago, Claude Whitacre said:

Shane...You need to look up what Light speed is...and what a light year is.

Yeah, I saw it, and these near microscopic "probes" would have to stay in the laser light,  for millions of miles to attain anything close to 24% of the speed of light. 

True, got carried away there. I find it exciting that within 35 years time, we will be getting close up images of a potentially habitable planet.

These probes, or what is left, will need to target, (probably on route, at great speeds) to this planet, so they get within camera distance, then correct for distortion, because of the speed, and then send it back.

Or this is like getting to Pluto, (they course corrected taking new obsticles into account on route), this unless a new more powerful telescope comes on line, (the worldwide project to link up radio telescopes, could probably do it, 100 times more powerful than hubble) and should be fully operational before closest approach.

Took us 12 years to reach Pluto, these things could get to Pluto in less than a day.