We’ve talked about project Breakthrough Starshot which aims to send a solar sail probe to Alpha Centauri within 20 years. A little basic math and knowing that Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light years away ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How do you design a sail that can get a spacecraft to another solar system? NASA's Voyager 1 and ...
After years of sitting mostly dark on the skyline, Google’s 35-story Sail Tower at 601 W. 2nd St. in downtown Austin finally ...
The tower had been conspicuously vacant since its completion in 2022, a situation estimated to have cost Google about $53 ...
It has been about two years since Yuri Milner announced his most audacious piece of science-focused philanthropy: Breakthrough Starshot, an attempt to send hardware to Alpha Centauri by mid-century.
Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods—most notably, they don't use any propellant. But, ...
Nine years after a rocket failure destroyed its solar-sailing spacecraft, the Planetary Society -- the nonprofit space advocacy group led by scientist and popular TV host Bill Nye -- is ready for ...
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