MISSION2MARS ACADEMY STARTUP INVESTOR PITCH LUNCH ONLINE
MISSION2MARS ACADEMY STARTUP INVESTOR PITCH LUNCH ONLINE
Tomorrow at 12:00 PM
2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025 • Menlo Park, CA
$150
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Going to the Stars - The First Mission to Proxima Centauri - Science Talk
Sending a light sail, miniature drone to Proxima Centauri
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Castro Valley Library 3600 Norbridge Avenue Castro Valley, CA 94546
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About this event
The stars beckon. Alas, interstellar distances are fantastically challenging. (A lightbeam needs 1/7th of a second to go around the world, but over 4 years to reach our Sun's nearest-neighbor star, Proxima Centauri.) Determined explorers at Breakthrough Starshot are developing miniature robot space probes — to be accelerated by laser light from Earth — whose cameras can reach Proxima Centauri in just 20 years! Among the wonders to be explored are Proxima's three known planets, including Proxima b, which orbits in this red dwarf star's "habitable zone."
Our speaker, Dr. Pete Worden, is Executive Director of Breakthrough Starshot, and former Director of NASA Ames Research Center.