Baku-APA. World-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Russian businessman Yuri Milner on Tuesday announced the launch of $100 million space exploration project Breakthrough Starshot, sending a fleet of spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, APA reports quoting TASS.
The fastest spacecraft needs some 30,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to the solar system, but Breakthrough Starshot project’s ambition is to cover the distance in 20 years.
The solution, according to Milner, is "gram-scale nanocraft, on a sail pushed by a light beam" that can fly over a thousand times faster.
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