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Picogram-Scale Interstellar Probes via Bioinspired Engineering
For exploring nearby stars, let us consider the challenges of a picogram- to nanogram-scale probe to land, replicate, and produce a communications module based on biominerals at the destination. A billion such probes could be launched for similar cost as a single gram-scale probe. One design is a hi...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9784576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36475966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0008 |
| Sumario: | For exploring nearby stars, let us consider the challenges of a picogram- to nanogram-scale probe to land, replicate, and produce a communications module based on biominerals at the destination. A billion such probes could be launched for similar cost as a single gram-scale probe. One design is a highly reflective light sail, traveling a long straight line toward the gravitational well of a destination star, and then photo-deflected to the closest nonluminous mass—ideally a planet or moon with exposed liquid water. |
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