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Breakthrough Starshot - A New Nanocraft Approach to Space Exploration

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Sean Zarinegar
Sean Zarinegar

A growth-focused entrepreneur, Sean Zarinegar maintains an extensive Arizona real estate rental portfolio and guides American Housing Income Trust. Sean Zarinegars investment experience extends to the technology sphere, and he blogs on topics from the Internet to space exploration at www.seanzarinegartech.com.

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Introduction A growth-focused entrepreneur, Sean Zarinegar maintains an extensive Arizona real estate rental portfolio and guides American Housing Income Trust. Sean Zarinegars investment experience extends to the technology sphere, and he blogs on topics from the Internet to space exploration at www.seanzarinegartech.com. In April of 2016, he took a close look at Stephen Hawkings and Yuri Milners announcement that they intend to create an interstellar spacecraft fleet that would potentially attain speeds as high as one-fifth the speed of light. Their plan stands in contrast to the relatively slow pace of exploration craft deployed up to now by NASA, within projects that can cost half a billion dollars or more.
Starshot Initially funded for $100 million, Breakthrough Starshot proposes the creation of inexpensive, expendable nanocraft, each weighing mere grams. These will be launched en masse into orbit through a 100 gigawatt laser pulse. The nanocraft, carrying equipment capable of biological sample analysis and image and data transmission, will be propelled by LightSails and theoretically capable of acceleration to relativistic speeds. Mr. Zarinegar notes that fundamental principles of miniaturization, automation, as well as laser propulsion and LightSails, are already in some stage of development. With the largest investment involving the creation of a laser array capable of propelling the nanocraft into space, the costs associated with actual space missions will plummet once a viable system is in place.

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Breakthrough Starshot - A New Nanocraft Approach to Space Exploration

  • 1. Breakthrough Starshot - A New Nanocraft Approach to Space Exploration Sean Zarinegar
  • 2. Introduction A growth-focused entrepreneur, Sean Zarinegar maintains an extensive Arizona real estate rental portfolio and guides American Housing Income Trust. Sean Zarinegars investment experience extends to the technology sphere, and he blogs on topics from the Internet to space exploration at www.seanzarinegartech.com. In April of 2016, he took a close look at Stephen Hawkings and Yuri Milners announcement that they intend to create an interstellar spacecraft fleet that would potentially attain speeds as high as one-fifth the speed of light. Their plan stands in contrast to the relatively slow pace of exploration craft deployed up to now by NASA, within projects that can cost half a billion dollars or more.
  • 3. Starshot Initially funded for $100 million, Breakthrough Starshot proposes the creation of inexpensive, expendable nanocraft, each weighing mere grams. These will be launched en masse into orbit through a 100 gigawatt laser pulse. The nanocraft, carrying equipment capable of biological sample analysis and image and data transmission, will be propelled by LightSails and theoretically capable of acceleration to relativistic speeds. Mr. Zarinegar notes that fundamental principles of miniaturization, automation, as well as laser propulsion and LightSails, are already in some stage of development. With the largest investment involving the creation of a laser array capable of propelling the nanocraft into space, the costs associated with actual space missions will plummet once a viable system is in place.