Project Longshot presents a preliminary design for an unmanned probe to Alpha Centauri with a planned launch early in the 21st century. A 100-year estimated travel time was baselined for the mission on Space Report, Pioneering the Space Frontier. One of the elements of the Commission's solar and space physics plan is 'a long-life, high-velocity spacecraft to be sent out of the Solar System on a trajectory to the nearest star'. Adequate lead time is included in the scenario to allow the development of several enabling technologies and to ensure that the required space operations infrastructure will be in place.
Project Longshot
1988-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
NTRS | 1989
|Project Longshot: A mission to Alpha Centauri
NTRS | 1989
|Project Longshot: A Mission to alpha Centauri
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