• Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.37 light-years away. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Breakthrough Starshot program aims to demonstrate a proof-of-concept for ultra-fast, light-driven nano-spacecraft, and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In January 2017, Breakthrough Initiatives and the European Southern Observatory began collaborating to search for habitable planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Breakthrough Starshot initiative , announced last year, has one very ambitious goal: to use high-powered lasers to launch a tiny, lightweight space probe toward our solar system's nearest star, Alpha Centauri, which is located roughly 4 light-years away. (space.com)
  • The postage-stamp-sized space probes of Breakthrough Starshot could make a flyby of planets around Alpha Centauri within 20 years after launch. (space.com)
  • The "Breakthrough Starshot" mission to Alpha Centauri would take decades and require a budget roughly the size of the largest scientific experiments currently in existence. (businessinsider.com)
  • The proposed Breakthrough Starshot project would send hundreds of "nanocraft" space probes 4.37 light years away -- at speeds of up to 100 million miles an hour -- to to explore Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system. (cnn.com)
  • Breakthrough Starshot also aims to help answer if we are alone in the universe, by studying the planets of Alpha Centauri to look for signs of life. (iflscience.com)
  • ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. (eso.org)
  • Knowing where the nearest exoplanets are is of paramount interest for Breakthrough Starshot, the research and engineering programme launched in April 2016, which aims to demonstrate proof of concept for ultra-fast light-driven "nanocraft", laying the foundation for the first launch to Alpha Centauri within a generation. (eso.org)
  • Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for a new technology, enabling ultra-light unmanned space flight at 20% of the speed of light, and to lay the foundations for a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation. (eso.org)
  • Breakthrough Starshot is a project with ambitious aims to use such systems to send tiny, lightweight probes to Alpha Centauri. (lifeboat.com)
  • Space migration could be made possible through initiatives like Breakthrough Starshot, a Hawking-backed attempt to reach Alpha Centauri - the closest star system outside of our own. (mirror.co.uk)
  • It could be a target for one of the Breakthrough Initiatives' projects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The agreement involves Breakthrough Initiatives providing funding for an upgrade to the VISIR (VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-Infrared) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. (wikipedia.org)
  • Breakthrough initiatives is a scientific program which aims at exploring the vast universe. (qrius.com)
  • Breakthrough Discuss was hosted by Stanford University's Department of Physics and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and sponsored by the Breakthrough Initiatives. (astrobiology.com)
  • Breakthrough Initiatives are a suite of scientific and technological programs exploring the big questions around life in the Universe, such as, Are we alone? (astrobiology.com)
  • ESO, represented by the Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives , represented by Pete Worden , Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives. (eso.org)
  • Breakthrough Initiatives will pay for a large fraction of the necessary technologies and development costs for such an experiment, and ESO will provide the required observing capabilities and time. (eso.org)
  • The Breakthrough Initiatives are a program of scientific and technological exploration founded in 2015 by Internet investor and science philanthropist Yuri Milner to explore the Universe, seek scientific evidence of life beyond Earth, and encourage public debate from a planetary perspective. (eso.org)
  • Private backer Breakthrough Initiatives to pay for new mid-infrared adaptive optics capability. (optics.org)
  • Paid for by a private backer in the form of Breakthrough Initiatives - the program of space-related technological exploration bankrolled by Russian physicist-turned-Internet-billionaire Yuri Milner - the upgrade will include a mid-infrared adaptive optics system, with plans for a new coronagraph. (optics.org)
  • The agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives, signed by ESO's director general Tim de Zeeuw, provides funds for modifications to the VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-Infrared (VISIR) instrument, plus telescope time pencilled in for 2019. (optics.org)
  • Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, has just announced its first observations of newly-discovered Earth-size planet Proxima b orbiting the nearest star to the Sun using the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. (astronomynow.com)
  • Stephen Hawking lave om på med Breakthrough Starshot. (au.dk)
  • Philanthropist Yuri Milner, left, and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking host a press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in New York City. (cnn.com)
  • Milner, named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man in space 55 years ago to the day, and famed physicist Stephen Hawking unveiled the "Breakthrough Starshot" project during a briefing on the observation deck atop One World Trade Center in New York. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • The dream of sending a ship or even a fleet of spacecraft the size of microchips off towards the stars was "born" in 2016, when physicist and IT billionair-e Yuri Milner, and astrophysi-cist Stephen Hawking created Breakthrou-gh Starshot. (pressreader.com)
  • The ambitious proposal called Breakthrough Starshot was revealed today by billionaire Yuri Milner, Professor Stephen Hawking, and a host of other scientists and experts. (iflscience.com)
  • But the Breakthrough Starshot project is clearly his most ambitious undertaking, the first real effort to develop proof-of-concept technology aimed at interstellar flight. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • Breakthrough Starshot is an ambitious project proposing an unusual mode of travel. (allaboutcircuits.com)
  • The Breakthrou-gh Starshot project is the most ambitious one. (pressreader.com)
  • The afternoon sessions focused on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot plan to send spacecraft to nearby stars. (astrobiology.com)
  • The Starshot concept envisions launching a "mothership" carrying about a thousand tiny spacecraft (on the scale of centimeters) to a high-altitude Earth orbit for deployment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ideally, the Breakthrough Starshot would aim its spacecraft within one astronomical unit (150 million kilometers or 93 million miles) of that world. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Starshot spacecraft will measure just a few meters across, with a thickness of just a few atoms. (hotstream.org)
  • Can we use Breakthrough Starshot spacecraft to detect any unknown massive object in our solar system? (stackexchange.com)
  • Milner, a self-described science philanthropist and founder of DST Global, an internet investment firm, announced plans last July to spend $100 million to expand and accelerate the on-going search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, another "breakthrough initiative" supported by Hawking and directed by Worden. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • This is the latest Breakthrough Prize from Milner and Hawking, with a previous project from the two being the groundbreaking $100 million Breakthrough Listen campaign, one of the most extensive searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life to date. (iflscience.com)
  • The new space exploration initiative announced Tuesday is called the " Breakthrough Starshot . (businessinsider.com)
  • Their bold plan to send tiny probes to nearby stars is now supported by NASA and the Breakthrough Starshot $100 million dollar initiative. (planetary.org)
  • Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. (eso.org)
  • Devised by engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Los Angeles in the US as part of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, the innovations aim to find ways to strike the balance in durability and mass required for an interstellar vessel. (sciencealert.com)
  • The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative intends to develop, within a generation, the capability to launch tiny laser-propelled space probes to the nearest star. (whyy.org)
  • An artist's illustration of the Breakthrough Starshot project's laser sail propelled nanocraft after launch. (space.com)
  • An October 2017 presentation of the Starshot system model examined circular sails and finds that the beam director capital cost is minimized by having a sail diameter of 5 meters. (wikipedia.org)
  • Relativistic generalization of the incentive trap of interstellar travel with application to Breakthrough Starshot. (mpg.de)
  • and Avi Loeb, chair of both the Harvard University Astronomy Department and the Breakthrough Starshot advisory committee, published their findings in the March 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. (space.com)
  • Humanity has demonstrated light sails in space, and the technology is the backbone of Breakthrough Starshot , a project that aims to send tiny robotic probes to nearby star systems. (livescience.com)
  • With the Breakthrough Starshot project, we are a step closer to it. (qrius.com)
  • The breakthrough star shot project labels the above planet as one of its main target planets. (qrius.com)
  • What kind of challenges will the 'Starshot project' face? (qrius.com)
  • The project will be called Breakthrough Starshot, and it's led by Pete Worden, the former director of NASA's AMES Research Center - the people working on a warp drive. (hotstream.org)
  • He's also one of the people working on the Breakthrough Starshot project to send tiny probes to other star systems. (fireside.fm)
  • Concept image of the Breakthrough Starshot project. (allaboutcircuits.com)
  • The conference closed with a panel on science goals and instrumentation for Breakthrough Starshot. (astrobiology.com)
  • I would say that it's not so much an alternative to Starshot as an idea that could be pursued along with it, and perhaps implemented as a follow-on to any early sail flybys of Proxima. (centauri-dreams.org)
  • But with $100 million to strategically invest in these different areas, the Breakthrough Starshot team members think they can solve these problems and others. (space.com)
  • Over the course of two days on April 20-21, dozens of scientists attending the Breakthrough Discuss conference contemplated options for exploring planets in other star systems. (nbcnews.com)
  • Day Two of Breakthrough Discuss opened with Michaël Gillon describing the discovery of TRAPPIST-1, which has seven temperate planets, including three in the habitable zone. (astrobiology.com)
  • Breakthrough Discuss is an annual academic conference focused on life in the Universe and novel ideas for space exploration. (astrobiology.com)
  • He is also the founding Editor in Chief of the journal ACS Photonics, and Chair of the LightSail Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot program. (mrs.org)
  • A second session on Thursday examined the possibility of intelligent life in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, and recent attempts to search for it with Breakthrough Listen. (astrobiology.com)
  • lt;p>We welcomed Dr. Pete Worden back to the show to update us on the work of The Breakthrough Foundation with Starshot, Listen, Watch, and Message. (thespaceshow.com)
  • We started off discussing Breakthrough Listen with the important new upgrade to the South African MeerKAT radio telescope located in the Karoo desert. (thespaceshow.com)
  • Photogravimagnetic assists of light sails: a mixed blessing for Breakthrough Starshot? (mpg.de)
  • Since each Starshot might only cost a few dollars to make, the company could manufacture thousands and thousands, place them into orbit, and then start bugzapping them off to different stars. (hotstream.org)
  • Let's say we manage to build the phased laser array contemplated in the early Breakthrough Starshot discussions. (centauri-dreams.org)
  • De mener at tiden er ved at være moden til at realisere drømmen om at nå stjernerne, og har allerede fremlagt en detaljeret plan for, hvordan de med et enormt laser-array på jorden vil kunne accelerere små rumsonder op til 20% af lysets hastighed. (au.dk)
  • Idéen om at sende en interstellar rumsonde ud til de nærmeste stjerner og sende billeder tilbage af de exoplaneter der kredser herom lyder stadig som ren science fiction. (au.dk)
  • A swarm of about 1000 units would compensate for the losses caused by interstellar dust collisions en route to the target. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are many challenges to address before the Starshot can become a reality, and Manchester noted two such challenges related to the ball and the laser beams. (space.com)