tangentzeroee

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NASA selects bold proposal to 'swarm' Proxima Centauri with tiny probes ( phys.org )

Humans have dreamed about traveling to other star systems and setting foot on alien worlds for generations. To put it mildly, interstellar exploration is a very daunting task. As we explored in a previous post, it would take between 1000 and 81,000 years for a spacecraft to reach Alpha Centauri using conventional propulsion (or...

tangentzeroee ,

They're not. They will fly by. Just think of them as tiny New Horizons or Voyager probes.

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