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Milner and Hawking announce Breakthrough Starshot

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ESO's Very Large Telescope under a night sky with Alpha Centauri marked
Alpha Centauri, the star system Breakthrough Starshot's light-sail probes would aim for Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking announced Breakthrough Starshot in New York, a $100 million research program to test gram-scale light-sail probes that could reach Alpha Centauri at about 20 percent of light speed. Former NASA Ames director Pete Worden was named to lead it.

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  1. FirsthandInternet Investor and Science Philanthropist Yuri Milner & Physicist Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot ProjectBreakthrough Initiatives / 2016-04-12
  2. FirsthandBreakthrough Starshot (initiative page)Breakthrough Initiatives

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