11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... Initiatives motives for the deal, as the company’s research and engineering programme Breakthrough Starshot, launched in April 2016, aims to demonstrate proof of concept for an ultra-fast light-driven “nanocraft” – miniature space ...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
... environment around Proxima Centauri is essential for another reason too. Hoping to launch in the next couple of decades is Starshot - a project which will use miniature space probes attached to laser-driven sails, that will race to our...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... stars. And it is likely that we can build such a machine within the 21st century, given sufficient resources. Breakthrough Starshot is the most focused effort yet for achieving this goal. The required technologies will probably be ready...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... Marshall Space Flight Center. A half-scale solar sail is shown hanging in the background. The recently announced Breakthrough Starshot proposes to use a relatively small sail, on the order of a few square metres in area, illuminated by a high power...
