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Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System

2016-04-14 18:58:35| TechNewsWorld

Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner on Tuesday unveiled Breakthrough Starship, an ambitious $100 million effort to send miniature spacecraft to another solar system, but the program might not be quite ready to fly. It calls for a team of engineering and astrophysics experts to develop nanocrafts that could zoom to the Alpha Centauri star system at 20 percent the speed of light.

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