POSTED May 25, 2010

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Can Humanity Design A Probe Capable of Visiting Another Star? ⚓

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The Icarus team plan to revisit all these problems to determine whether they are any more achievable than they were 30 years ago.

One of the important design limitation that Daedalus sought to meet was that the flight time should be less than a human lifetime: which they arguably met with a 50-year journey time.

But an equally important goal is to ensure that the design challenges are addressable within the working lifetime of the scientists and engineers on the project. That’s a limitation that Daedalus obviously failed to meet.

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