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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology • 2017-07-28

Technical progress towards interstellar laser beamed nanocraft

The nanocraft concept, combining light beamer, lightsail and StarChip, is by far the most plausible system for launching a realistic mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation. The key elements of the proposed system design are based on technology either already available or likely to be attainable in the near future under reasonable assumptions.

Breakthrough Starshot has been provided $100 million in funding and currently has precursor chipsats in orbit.

Nanocrafts are gram-scale robotic spacecrafts comprising two main parts:

StarChip: Moore's law has allowed a dramatic decrease in the size of microelectronic components. This creates the possibility of a gram-scale wafer, carrying cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment, and constituting a fully functional space probe.

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