Here's the launcher as seen from space.FYI
Gonna be a fast flyby.
Here's the launcher as seen from space.Such complete bullcrap. Even if they could accelerate a “wafersat” weighing a few grams to 1/4 the speed of light, what would they get from it when it gets to another star system? The antenna couldn’t be big enough to overcome the path loss. They will never see images from such a craft. It’d be a foolhardy project; spending all that money for something they could never hope to heard from.
This does nothing to make Muslims feel good about themselves.
I think they are onto something by rethinking what a spacecraft is. We need to focus more on small probes rather than manned expeditions. Cheaper.
An American scientist has made a remarkable conceptual breakthrough, a design for a non nuclear relativistic launcher, capable of accelerating thousands of deep space probes per year to 0.25C; fast enough to reach the nearest stars in 15 years.Of course, their trips through each Solar System would only take hours at most, so a string to each system would be necessary. Alpha C, Proxima C, Barnard's Star...