Hawking, Milner & Zuckerberg to send tiny craft to another star system at near-light speed
Russian businessman Yury Milner joined forces with Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg to launch the Breakthrough Starshot project, aiming to send a robot to Alpha Centauri in the next 20 years.
The joint initiative by the well-known Russian Internet investor, the English physicist and the American Facebook co-founder will cost $100 million, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday.
The automated probe is being sent to Alpha Centauri, and is expected to reach it in 20 years. Called a "nano-craft" due to only weighing a gram, it will be sent 25 trillion miles – or 4.37 light years – by beam of light.
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