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NASA Selects a Wild Plan to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri With Thousands of Tiny Probes
Humans have dreamed about traveling to other star systems and setting foot on alien worlds for generations.
( Thomas Eubanks/NASA)In a previous paper, Eubanks and his colleagues demonstrated how a fleet of a thousand spacecraft could overcome the difficulties imposed by interstellar travel and maintaining communications with Earth through swarm dynamics. Swarm robotics is a hot field of research today and is being investigated as a possible means of exploring Europa's interior ocean, digging underground cities on Mars, assembling large structures in space, and providing extreme weather tracking from Earth's orbit. While it could take many decades before an interstellar mission is ready to travel to Alpha Centauri, Eubanks, and his colleagues are honored and excited to be among NASA's selectees for the 2024 NIAC program.
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