2 papers
astro-ph.IM2020
Relaying Swarms of Low-Mass Interstellar Probes
David Messerschmitt, Philip Lubin, Ian Morrison
Low-mass probes propelled by directed energy from earth are an early option for exploration of nearby star systems. A challenging aspect of such technology is returning scientific…
astro-ph.IM2020
Technological Challenges in Low-mass Interstellar Probe Communication
David Messerschmitt, Philip Lubin, Ian Morrison
Building on a preliminary paper design of a downlink from a swarm of low-mass interstellar probes for returning scientific data from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the most crit…