How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 l…
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New interstellar mission
The Fermi Explorer Mission, a nonprofit organization, announced plans to launch a spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, by the end of 2029.
Alpha Centauri is located 4.4 light-years away, which equals about 25 trillion miles.
The mission aims to send a small spacecraft carrying at least one kilogram of cargo, including artistic and scientific payloads, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record—a gold-plated disc sent with NASA’s Voyager probes in 1977 as a potential message to extraterrestrial life.
The spacecraft is expected to take up to 80,000 years to reach its destination, as it will travel at a much slower speed than previous proposals like Breakthrough Starshot, which aimed for a fifth of the speed of light but never launched.
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