PetaPixel What Happened to the $100 Million Dream to Send Sub-Gram-Sized Cameras to Alpha Centauri


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An artist's depiction of a lightsail spacecraft in space, propelled by a beam of light towards a distant planet. The triangular sail glows with a spectrum of colors, casting an ethereal glow amidst a backdrop of stars and cosmic dust.

Scientific and technological ideas can sound outlandish until they suddenly aren't. Many things people take for granted today were once considered impossible. However, nearly a decade after being revealed, the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot interstellar space project still seems more like a pipe dream than anything else.

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