If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
The founders behind Starcloud, a startup with plans to operate a fleet of GPUs in orbit, have a new pitch for potential investors: A plan to send a tiny spacecraft on an 80,000 year journey to Alpha Centauri.
If they do it, it will be the first human-built object explicitly aimed for another star, and the sixth to leave our solar system.
Dubbed Fermi Explorer, the non-profit behind the mission emerged today to ask for partners, donations and advice. The initial team—Starcloud founders Philip Johnston, Adi Oltean, and Ezra Feilden, along with program manager Garret Jameson—has put together a plan to use proven space technologies to send a vehicle with a 10 cm square payload, weighing 1 kilogram, into interstellar space.
The founders say they are launching this mission in the spirit of human exploration; to achieve a historical first; and to test the limits of the Fermi...
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