Swarming Proxima Centauri and Getting Data Back [NIAC 2024]

When we’ll be sending probes to other stars, getting there will be only one part of the challenge. How do we get the data back? So, NASA just funded a research that will be aiming to solve this problem through the NIAC program. 👉 NIAC Award “Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances“ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: 📚 Suggest books in the book club: 00:00 Intro 00:56 Applying for NIAC 02:54 The Idea 25:43 Imaging planets 30:06 Using tech in the Solar System 38:24 Laser technology 45:30 The reality of NIAC 51:19 Final thoughts 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: Astronomy Cast: 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Mastodon: @fcain Twitter: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@ ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.