Archived Breakthrough Starshot successfully launch world's smallest spacecraft (theguardian.com)
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Archived Breakthrough Starshot successfully launch world's smallest spacecraft (theguardian.com)
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'The smallest spacecraft ever launched are successfully travelling in low Earth orbit and communicating with systems on Earth, scientists have announced. '
'The top destination for such a mission is our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within which is the star Proxima Centauri which is orbited by the planet Proxima b. '
'The Sprite project is led by Zac Manchester, now a researcher working with Loeb at Harvard University, who began work on the spacecraft almost a decade ago, before the project became part of the Breakthrough Starshot effort. '
'The Sprites, Loeb adds, are also cheap. “Each of them is only tens of dollars in cost,” he said. '
'While nanosatellites known as CubeSats have previously been sent into space, such systems have a mass thousands of times that of the Sprites, weighing more than 1kg. '
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