Die ersten Schritte zur Entwicklung interstellarer Lichterschkaufs: „Das Leuchten schenkt schneller als jedes frühere Raumschiff“.

For those looking at the Nature paywall linked in the article, don’t worry, [the paper is on arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00117).

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To my surprise, this actually does seem to be funded by Breakthrough Initiatives. I always wondered what was going on with that, because they’ve been a bit quiet about Starshot. The last time the news section of their website mentioned Starshot was in their statement of condolences on the death of Steven Hawking..

I know, of course, that research takes time, but after the rather attention-grabbing launch event I think I’d imagined they were going to be making that slow progress a bit more, I guess, „visible“ in a pop-science sense. Like a big NASA mission would.