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Kind of odd that they did not reference any of the existing work done by the breakthrough foundation/UCSB https://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/projects/starshot http
by osamagirl69 3y ago
Kind of odd that they did not reference any of the existing work done by the breakthrough foundation/UCSB
https://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/projects/starshot https://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/projects/starshot
In particular they have a few paper about lab demos of phased arrays specifically for breakthrough starshot
https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ASSL-2021-JM3A.43 https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ASSL-2021-JM3A.43
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.00568.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.00568.pdf
etc
- xibbie 3y agoIsn't it literally the first thing they reference in the introduction? > The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative [1] aims to send a probe to image a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri and return data
- whimsicalism 3y agoThey literally mention it in the first paragraph.