Breakthrough Starshot (English Wikipedia)

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arstechnica.com (Global: 388^th place; English: 265^th place)

Timmer, John (24 August 2016). "Just how dangerous is it to travel at 20% the speed of light?". Science. Ars Technica. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

arxiv.org (Global: 69^th place; English: 59^th place)

Lubin, Philip (2016). "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 69: 40. arXiv:1604.01356. Bibcode:2016JBIS...69...40L. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2017.(file available at University of California, Santa Barbara here Archived 17 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 16 April 2016)
Hoang; Lazarian, A.; Burkhart, Blakesley; Loeb, Abraham (2017). "The Interaction of Relativistic Spacecrafts with the Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 837 (1): 5. arXiv:1608.05284. Bibcode:2017ApJ...837....5H. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa5da6. S2CID 55427720.
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Parkin, Kevin L. G. (2020). "A Starshot Communication Downlink". arXiv:2005.08940 [astro-ph.IM].
Heller, René; Hippke, Michael; Kervella, Pierre (2017). "Optimized trajectories to the nearest stars using lightweight high-velocity photon sails". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 115. arXiv:1704.03871. Bibcode:2017AJ....154..115H. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa813f. S2CID 119070263.
Gros, Claudius (2016), "Developing ecospheres on transiently habitable planets: The genesis project", Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 (10) 324, arXiv:1608.06087, Bibcode:2016Ap&SS.361..324G, doi:10.1007/s10509-016-2911-0, S2CID 6106567

breakthroughinitiatives.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrough Starshot". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
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"Breakthrough Starshot: Management and Advisory Committee".
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Lightsail, Integrity under thrust.
Lightsail | Stability on the beam.
"Breakthrough Initiatives". breakthroughinitiatives.org. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
"Breakthrough Starshot: Concept". 12 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
"Potential Challenges for Starshot". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
"Interstellar Dust". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Staff (26 July 2017). "In Quest To Reach Alpha Centauri, BreakThrough Starshot Launches World's Smallest Spacecraft – First Prototype 'Sprites' – Precursors to Eventual 'StarChip' Probes – Achieve Low Earth Orbit". BreakThroughInitiatives.org. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrough Starshot: Potential Challenges". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrouth Starshot: Gram-Scale Starchip Components – 4 Cameras". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrouth Starshot: Gram-Scale Starchip Components – 4 Processors". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrouth Starshot: Gram-Scale Starchip Components – 4 Photon Thrusters". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrouth Starshot: Gram-Scale Starchip Components – Battery". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrouth Starshot: Gram-Scale Starchip Components – Protective Coating". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrough Starshot: Lightsail, Integrity under thrust". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
Staff (12 April 2016). "Breakthrouth Starshot: Gram-Scale Starchip Components – Lightsail – Structure". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

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Gilster, Paul (12 April 2016). "Breakthrough Starshot: Mission to Alpha Centauri". Centauri Dreams. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
Gilster, Paul (21 October 2013). "Laser Travel by Photonic Thruster". Centauri Dreams. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

cornell.edu (Global: 332^nd place; English: 246^th place)

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"Cracker-sized satellites demonstrate new space tech". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Witze, Alexandra (25 August 2016). "Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true". Nature. 536 (7617): 381–382. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..381W. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20445. PMID 27558041. S2CID 4405961.
Hoang; Lazarian, A.; Burkhart, Blakesley; Loeb, Abraham (2017). "The Interaction of Relativistic Spacecrafts with the Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 837 (1): 5. arXiv:1608.05284. Bibcode:2017ApJ...837....5H. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa5da6. S2CID 55427720.
Clery, Daniel (12 April 2016). "Russian billionaire unveils big plan to build tiny interstellar spacecraft". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aaf4115. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Heller, René; Hippke, Michael; Kervella, Pierre (2017). "Optimized trajectories to the nearest stars using lightweight high-velocity photon sails". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 115. arXiv:1704.03871. Bibcode:2017AJ....154..115H. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa813f. S2CID 119070263.
Gros, Claudius (2016), "Developing ecospheres on transiently habitable planets: The genesis project", Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 (10) 324, arXiv:1608.06087, Bibcode:2016Ap&SS.361..324G, doi:10.1007/s10509-016-2911-0, S2CID 6106567
Boddy, Jessica (2016). "Q&A: Should we seed life on alien worlds?". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aah7285. ISSN 0036-8075.

economist.com (Global: 254^th place; English: 236^th place)

"A new plan to send spacecraft to the stars: replace rockets with lasers". The Economist. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
Staff (16 April 2016). "Starship enterprise". The Economist. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

eso.org (Global: 3,034^th place; English: 2,650^th place)

"Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star – Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri". eso.org. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
"VLT to Search for Planets in Alpha Centauri System". European Space Observatory (ESO). 9 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.

gizmodo.com (Global: 474^th place; English: 329^th place)

Stone, Maddie (12 April 2016). "Stephen Hawking and a Russian Billionaire Want to Build an Interstellar Starship". Gizmodo. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
Stone, Maddie (12 April 2016). "Stephen Hawking and a Russian Billionaire Want to Build an Interstellar Starship". Gizmodo. Retrieved 12 April 2016.

harvard.edu (Global: 18^th place; English: 17^th place)

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Lubin, Philip (2016). "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 69: 40. arXiv:1604.01356. Bibcode:2016JBIS...69...40L. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2017.(file available at University of California, Santa Barbara here Archived 17 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 16 April 2016)
Witze, Alexandra (25 August 2016). "Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true". Nature. 536 (7617): 381–382. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..381W. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20445. PMID 27558041. S2CID 4405961.
Hoang; Lazarian, A.; Burkhart, Blakesley; Loeb, Abraham (2017). "The Interaction of Relativistic Spacecrafts with the Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 837 (1): 5. arXiv:1608.05284. Bibcode:2017ApJ...837....5H. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa5da6. S2CID 55427720.
Heller, René; Hippke, Michael; Kervella, Pierre (2017). "Optimized trajectories to the nearest stars using lightweight high-velocity photon sails". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 115. arXiv:1704.03871. Bibcode:2017AJ....154..115H. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa813f. S2CID 119070263.
Gros, Claudius (2016), "Developing ecospheres on transiently habitable planets: The genesis project", Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 (10) 324, arXiv:1608.06087, Bibcode:2016Ap&SS.361..324G, doi:10.1007/s10509-016-2911-0, S2CID 6106567

inverse.com (Global: 1,239^th place; English: 760^th place)

Patel, Neel V. (15 April 2016). "The Starshot Breakthrough Light Beam Is Really a Million Lasers, Which Is Insane". Inverse. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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Lubin, Philip (2016). "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 69: 40. arXiv:1604.01356. Bibcode:2016JBIS...69...40L. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2017.(file available at University of California, Santa Barbara here Archived 17 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 16 April 2016)

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Hall, Loura (7 May 2015). "DEEP IN Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration". NASA News. Retrieved 22 April 2016. NASA is pleased to hear that Professor Lubin has received external funding to continue the work started in his NIAC study.
Tavares, Frank (30 May 2019). "What is KickSat-2?". NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

natureworldnews.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

F, Jessica (14 April 2016). "Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner Launch $100M Space Project Called Breakthrough Starshot". Nature World News.

newscientist.com (Global: 774^th place; English: 716^th place)

Romero, James (November 2017). "Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?". New Scientist. No. 3152.

newsweek.com (Global: 269^th place; English: 201^st place)

Lee, Seung (13 April 2016). "Mark Zuckerberg Launches $100 Million Initiative To Send Tiny Space Probes To Explore Stars". Newsweek. Retrieved 29 July 2019.

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Witze, Alexandra (25 August 2016). "Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true". Nature. 536 (7617): 381–382. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..381W. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20445. PMID 27558041. S2CID 4405961.

npr.org (Global: 92^nd place; English: 72^nd place)

Domonoske, Camila (12 April 2016). "Forget Starships: New Proposal Would Use 'Starchips' To Visit Alpha Centauri". NPR. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Chang, Kenneth (24 August 2016). "One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
Overbye, Dennis (12 April 2016). "Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.24 Light-Years; A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 April 2016.

parkinresearch.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Parkin, Kevin. "Starshot System Model".

rp-photonics.com (Global: low place; English: 9,678^th place)

Paschotta, Dr Rüdiger (March 2007). "Coherent beam combining". rp-photonics.com. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

science.org (Global: 1,160^th place; English: 737^th place)

Clery, Daniel (12 April 2016). "Russian billionaire unveils big plan to build tiny interstellar spacecraft". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aaf4115. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

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Scoles, Sarah (October 2025). "How a Billionaire's Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart". Scientific American. Vol. 333. Retrieved 18 September 2025.

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Scharf, Caleb A. (26 April 2016). "Can Starshot Work?". Scientific American Blogs. Retrieved 25 August 2016.

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"Breakthrough Lightsail: Ultra-Thin, AI-Optimized, and Ready to Race to Alpha Centauri". SciTechDaily. 31 March 2025.

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Witze, Alexandra (25 August 2016). "Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true". Nature. 536 (7617): 381–382. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..381W. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20445. PMID 27558041. S2CID 4405961.
Hoang; Lazarian, A.; Burkhart, Blakesley; Loeb, Abraham (2017). "The Interaction of Relativistic Spacecrafts with the Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 837 (1): 5. arXiv:1608.05284. Bibcode:2017ApJ...837....5H. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa5da6. S2CID 55427720.
Heller, René; Hippke, Michael; Kervella, Pierre (2017). "Optimized trajectories to the nearest stars using lightweight high-velocity photon sails". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 115. arXiv:1704.03871. Bibcode:2017AJ....154..115H. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa813f. S2CID 119070263.
Gros, Claudius (2016), "Developing ecospheres on transiently habitable planets: The genesis project", Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 (10) 324, arXiv:1608.06087, Bibcode:2016Ap&SS.361..324G, doi:10.1007/s10509-016-2911-0, S2CID 6106567

slate.com (Global: 259^th place; English: 188^th place)

Greene, Kate (13 April 2016). "What Will Make Interstellar Travel a Reality?". Slate. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

space.com (Global: 936^th place; English: 713^th place)

Emspak, Jesse (15 April 2016). "No Breakthrough Yet: Stephen Hawking's Interstellar 'Starshot' Faces Challenges". Space. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
Emspak, Jesse (15 April 2016). "No Breakthrough Yet: Stephen Hawking's Interstellar 'Starshot' Faces Challenges". Space.com. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

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University, Stanford (3 June 2019). "Inexpensive chip-size satellites orbit Earth". Stanford News. Retrieved 3 June 2019.

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"KickSat-2 project launches 105 cracker-sized satellites". TechCrunch. 4 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

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Lubin, Philip (2016). "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 69: 40. arXiv:1604.01356. Bibcode:2016JBIS...69...40L. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2017.(file available at University of California, Santa Barbara here Archived 17 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 16 April 2016)
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Lubin, Philip (2016). "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 69: 40. arXiv:1604.01356. Bibcode:2016JBIS...69...40L. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2017.(file available at University of California, Santa Barbara here Archived 17 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 16 April 2016)

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Boddy, Jessica (2016). "Q&A: Should we seed life on alien worlds?". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aah7285. ISSN 0036-8075.

youtube.com (Global: 9^th place; English: 13^th place)

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