In addition to propelling nanocraft, the light beamer array will also serve as a receiver for any data that's beamed back to Earth. The nanocraft might travel as fast as 20% the speed of light ...

The solution, according to Milner, is "gram-scale nanocraft, on a sail pushed by a light beam" that can fly over a thousand times faster. The project includes a collection of gram-scale nanocraft ...

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The project aims to find out whether the "nanocraft", each weighing far less than an ounce, could fly at a fifth of the speed of light and capture images of possible planets and other scientific data.

The project culminated in August 2016 with the discovery of Proxima b. Once there [near Proxima b], the nanocraft could image any planets discovered in the system, test for magnetic fields and organic ...

"We hope to build a whole system that will send nanocraft to Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri within a generation," said Worden, the executive director of Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative ...

Challenges like high-energy radiation in space, extreme cold, and potential collision with dust grains when travelling at such high speed threaten to damage the nanocraft. Hawking, however ...

The core concept of the project, called Breakthrough Starshot, is to shoot powerful lasers at thousands of palm-size "nanocraft" equipped with light sails. This should propel the small robots ...