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J Shreeve, What’s out there, National Geographic, March 2019, p 42

In US, Scientists and Engineers are developing small spaceships within the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative designed to be propelled by ground based lasers to reach the fifth of the speed of light and to reach Proxima Centauri b during more than 20 years. Information beamed back will take 4 years to reach Earth.

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Journal title: National Geographic

Keywords: 4 Propulsion - 4.6 Novel propulsive systems

Subjects: Propulsion, Spacecraft

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