The Solar Sailing Project Starshot, Is It Possible?

There are no plans to go faster than chemical rockets at the moment. There is this something called Project Starshot,. These micro satellites, they're the size of a postage stamp. They would beam signals back to us at the speed of light that takes four years. We could actually have an entire mission that unfolds over a 24 year period.

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