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If an Earth-size planet is orbiting within the Alpha Centauri system’s habitable zones, Breakthrough Starshot will try to aim its By Bob Eklund No, it’s not Star Trek yet, but it could be a way to reach the stars within the lifetime of many of us. The initiative is called Breakthrough Starshot—a research and engineering project by Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proofof concept fl eet of light sail spacecraft, called StarChips, capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system, 4.37 lightyears away, at speeds between 20% and 15% of the speed of light, taking between 20 to 30 years to get there, respectively, and about 4 years to notify Earth of a successful arrival. The conceptual principles to enable this interstellar travel project were described in “A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight,” by Philip Lubin of UC Santa Barbara. The project was announced April 12 by physicist and venture capitalist Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who is serving as board member of Breakthrough Initiatives. Other board members include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The project has an initial funding of $100 million to start research. Milner places the fi nal mission cost at $5–10 billion, and estimates the fi rst craft could launch about 20 years from now. The Starshot concept envisions launching a spacecrafts within 1 Astronomical Unit (93 million miles) of it. From this distance, its cameras could potentially capture an image of high enough quality to resolve surface features. The spacecraft fl eet would have about 1,000 spacecraft, and each spacecraft would be a very small centimeter-sized craft weighing a few grams. They would be propelled by several ground-based lasers of up to 100 gigawatts. 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