NEW YORK, April 13. / Corr. Natalia Slavin TASS /. The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg joins a group of international scientists, launching the project the first in the history of mankind output of the solar system. This Zuckerberg told a your page in the social network.
The day before it became known that the Russian businessman Yuri Milner and renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking start a new project called Breakthrough Starshot, in which the board of directors together and Zuckerberg will go with them to create the first interstellar probe and study of the Alpha Centauri system
Wait for 30 thousand years -. too long
“I am proud of that join Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking at the new space project in which it will attempt to go beyond the system of our closest planets to the first time in the history of mankind to explore other stars – said Facebook founder -. the nearest to us such a star Alpha Centauri is located about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometers) away. to get there, take about 30 thousand. years, to use current even the fastest spacecraft. But it is too long “.
As explained Zuckerberg “new idea is that instead of flying large traditional spacecraft operating on fuel create a fleet of tiny spacecraft – so-called nanoapparatov which can reach speeds of up to 20% the speed of light using an array of laser beams supplied to the surface of our planet. ” “Such devices rate can reach about 100 million miles per hour (more than 160 million km per hour) This is only 20 years to reach Alpha Centauri, -. Stressed young scientist billionaire -. And it’s a whole new way of space travel and research space “.
it is likely that you can be
in the Alpha Centauri system
According to Mark, to make such a project will help” the recent very important discovery, on the basis of which it can be argued that many star has a planet located at a distance that allows for water to sustain life. ” “That is, they are close enough to its star, so that the water does not freeze, but not so close that it is completely evaporated, however, -. Acknowledged Zuckerberg – the fact that the planet is in this area does not mean that there there is water or a place where it is possible to exist “.
He cited the example of Mars, which does not have water, and thus” live there it would be very difficult. ” “It is possible that the nearest to our planet on which people could actually live, is orbiting Alpha Centauri – suggested the founder with Facebook. – The only way to know for sure – to approach it close enough to take a picture. This part of the project task “
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Zuckerberg said that he, along with Yuri Milner” for many years worked on a number of research projects, including the creation Breakthrough “award. “And now I would very much like to support this latest initiative, which he performs with Stephen Hawking, to help bring the stars of outer space”, – said Mark
Cost nanoapparata not exceed the mobile phone price
it is assumed that the cost of a single run can make a few hundred thousand dollars, and the cost of the apparatus due to economies of scale will reduce to mobile phone prices, which will run into space hundreds of such objects.
to date, space has sent machines that use a similar solar sail technology: it allows the spacecraft to move without spending fuel by the pressure of sunlight – a stream of particles flowing from the sun. An example of such a device – probe LightSail, launched by the American non-profit organization in the summer of last year. However, the draft Milner and Hawking source light beam, by which will move the machine to be ground matrix system consisting of individual light sources.
Breakthrough Starshot
Step study and design will take a few years. Total investment in the project will be compared with the budgets of the largest modern international scientific experiments (such as the Large Hadron Collider). Head Breakthrough Starshot program appointed Pete Worden – the former head of NASA Ames Research Center. The Scientific Council of the Programme includes the world’s leading scientists and engineers specializing in the field of microelectronics, optics and cosmology. Among them, the Russian physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the former director of the Space Research Institute of USSR Academy of Sciences Roald Sagdeev.
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