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Let’s see, total surface area of 1 square km, 1,000 probes in the swarm, that’s 1,000 square meters per probe… but it can only weigh a few grams? Also it can’t
by sp332 3y ago
Let’s see, total surface area of 1 square km, 1,000 probes in the swarm, that’s 1,000 square meters per probe… but it can only weigh a few grams? Also it can’t be sparse because the point is to capture light energy instead of letting it pass through.
- robin_reala 3y agoThe 1km^2 figure in the article was for the receiving “antenna” on earth. It doesn’t give a figure for the size of the sails, but Breakthrough Starshot’s equivalent swarm members were going for 4m^2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot#Light_sail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot#Light_sa...