Scientists and the public will be able to participate in the project Hawking and Milner – TASS

MOSCOW, April 12th. / TASS /. Scientists and the public can take part in the project for the delivery of space nanoapparata to the star system, Alpha Centauri, and received in the course of its implementation of data will be published in the public domain, he said during a press conference broadcast on space.com, co-owner of Internet companies DST Global and Mail.ru Group, the main investor of the project Yuri Milner.

“We have to solve serious engineering problems. Furthermore, our team has worked hard to identify and assess the problem. the observed tasks were published on our website -site with a possible solution. and the Advisory Board of experts from the relevant areas have helped our team. Breakthrough Starshot entirely based on the work that is in the public domain. It adheres to the rules of transparency and full public access with the obligation to publish new results. We welcome the participation of experts as well as the public on our online forum, “- Milner said

Milner and renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has announced the launch of the project Breakthrough Starshot $ 100 million, which aims -. to deliver space nanoapparat 20 years with light to sail to the nearest solar system Alpha Centauri star system. 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 cost of mobile phone, which will run into space hundreds of such objects.

So far into space already launched devices using similar technology to solar sail: it allows the spacecraft to move, without wasting fuel, due to the pressure of the solar wind – 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.

In July 2015 Milner and Hawking announced a joint project on the life of the search for outside our planet Breakthrough Listen, in which a businessman was planning to invest $ 100 million. The essence of the joint with the famous British scientist of the project is that by using the most powerful telescopes in the world, united in a large-scale computer system to search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, “listening “great space, including the Milky Way and the galaxy close to it. It is planned that the project will be used, in particular, the world’s largest parabolic radio telescope in Green Bank, located in the United States and the telescope Parkes Observatory in Australia. The initiative is designed for 10 years.