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If we start traveling towards Alpha Centauri with a rocket it would take 100,000 years to reach there which is humanly not possible for us now. So, in order to reach there much quickly project STARSHOT was founded 5 years ago in 2016 by Mark Zuckerberg, and Stephen Hawking Yuri Milner.
Right now scientists are designing ultralight probes. Each probe is 4 m wide but only a few 100 atoms thick at the center, it has a Camera, Processor, Battery and Transmitter which takes its overall weight to ~10 grams. A spacecraft will carry 1,000 of these probes and launch them directly into the Earth's orbit. After that, ground based lasers will come into effect and fire 1+ gigawatt of energy onto each probe for 10 minutes.
This will accelerate them to 15-20% the speed of light and the probe will begin its journey to Alpha Centauri. At 15% to 20% the speed of light probe will arrive at Alpha Centauri in 20 to 30 years and will make a close fly by to its planets. It will collect and transmit data back to Earth that will take 4 years to arrive at the speed of light.
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