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Nasa is working with Stephen Hawking to send a tiny nano-spacecraft to Alpha Centauri at one fifth the speed of light.
The team have been working on the challenge of how the spacecraft could survive the intense interstellar radiation on the 20-year trip to Earth's closest start system.
New research suggests that 'self-healing' silicon chips could be the answer.
Re-routing the mission to avoid high-radiation areas could add years to the mission, while protective shielding would add too much weight to the tiny spacecraft.
A new study from researchers at Nasa and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) says that self-healing silicon chips could be used to prolong the life of the tiny spacecraft.
The chip's tiny 20-nanometer features, make them lightweight and as well as resilient to cosmic rays, said the researchers.
'Therefore, the lifetime of devices can be extended, which opens an opportunity for nano-spacecraft sustainable for more than 20 years of deep space exploration,' says the paper.
( very interesting)
The findings were presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco last week.
Scientist and investor Yuri Milner holds up a prototype of the "Star Chip", a small robotic space craft that will enable intersteller travel as he poses with Professor Stephen Hawking and Professor Freeman Dyson
'Earth is a wonderful place, but it might not last forever,' commented Stephen Hawking, 'Sooner or later, we must look to the stars.
'Breakthrough Starshot is a very exciting first step on that journey.
'With light beams, light sails and the lightest spacecraft ever built we can launch a mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation,' said Hawking.
The $100 million research and engineering program will seek proof of concept for using light beam to propel super lightweight nanocraft to 20 per cent of light speed.
The team have been working on the challenge of how the spacecraft could survive the intense interstellar radiation on the 20-year trip to Earth's closest start system.
New research suggests that 'self-healing' silicon chips could be the answer.
Re-routing the mission to avoid high-radiation areas could add years to the mission, while protective shielding would add too much weight to the tiny spacecraft.
A new study from researchers at Nasa and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) says that self-healing silicon chips could be used to prolong the life of the tiny spacecraft.
The chip's tiny 20-nanometer features, make them lightweight and as well as resilient to cosmic rays, said the researchers.
'Therefore, the lifetime of devices can be extended, which opens an opportunity for nano-spacecraft sustainable for more than 20 years of deep space exploration,' says the paper.
( very interesting)
The findings were presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco last week.
Scientist and investor Yuri Milner holds up a prototype of the "Star Chip", a small robotic space craft that will enable intersteller travel as he poses with Professor Stephen Hawking and Professor Freeman Dyson
'Earth is a wonderful place, but it might not last forever,' commented Stephen Hawking, 'Sooner or later, we must look to the stars.
'Breakthrough Starshot is a very exciting first step on that journey.
'With light beams, light sails and the lightest spacecraft ever built we can launch a mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation,' said Hawking.
The $100 million research and engineering program will seek proof of concept for using light beam to propel super lightweight nanocraft to 20 per cent of light speed.
