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We’ve become more ambitious about reaching Alpha Centauri – what changed?
The real innovation powering the idea of Starshot is not in terms of propulsion or even the lasers but of the miniaturisation of electronics. Continue reading
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Tagged Alpha Centauri system, Breakthrough Starshot, fusion rockets, interstellar travel, Project Daedalus, Project Longshot, Project Orion, pulsed fusion microexplosion drive, specific impulse, Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
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