Starshot: Russian billionaire and Stephen Hawking want to use lasers to send tiny spacecraft to nearby star
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 20:40
in Astronomy & Space
This is not your granddad’s moonshot. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking have announced Breakthrough Starshot, a $100-million initiative to develop spacecraft that would send probes all the way to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system. These nano-craft would have to...