Vision of the Starshot Interstellar Lightsail Spacecraft
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6F309)
Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip. It is funded by billionaires Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg. Caltech is the doing a lot of the research and design and they have generated some designs for the probes which ...