News Archive / Tagged: Breakthrough Starshot

• Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop taking the long view to the stars

  Bart LeahyOctober 12th, 2017

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — While NASA and commercial operators plan to send human beings beyond low-Earth orbit, the participants of the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop (TVIW) spent this past week contemplating something incomparably more ambitious: seeking practical ways to travel to the stars.

• Could Breakthrough Starshot be humanity’s first interstellar mission?

  Jason RhianAugust 1st, 2017

  In the NewSpace era, one hears all manner of predictions and brash claims, few come to fruition. Most of these efforts see Chapter 11 before they ever take to the skies. One program, dubbed Breakthrough Starshot, is looking to send mankind's space exploration efforts far beyond the Solar System by using the world's smallest spacecraft.

• How to slow down an interstellar spacecraft at Alpha Centauri

  Tomasz NowakowskiMarch 25th, 2017

  While one of the most important challenges for future interstellar travel is how to send a probe to other stellar systems relatively fast, another issue that needs to be resolved is how to successfully slow down such a spacecraft once it gets there.