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Cost-Optimal Laser-Accelerated Lightsails
Kevin L. G. Parkin
Laser-accelerated lightsails enable new types of missions that are very different from the Breakthrough Starshot mission to the Centauri system that aims to send 1 gram of payload…
Exploration of the outer solar system with fast and small sailcraft
Slava G. Turyshev, Peter Klupar, Abraham Loeb +4
Two new interplanetary technologies have advanced in the past decade to the point where they may enable exciting, affordable missions that reach further and faster deep into the ou…
A Starshot Communication Downlink
Kevin L. G. Parkin
Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative to propel a sailcraft to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. As the sailcraft transits Alpha Centauri at 0.2 c, it looks for signs of…
The Breakthrough Starshot System Model
Kevin L. G. Parkin
Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative to prove ultra-fast light-driven nanocrafts, and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. Along t…