Why Is it Challenging To Get To Proxima Centauri?
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Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the solar system; however, with modern technology, it would take thousands of years to reach that star. Will we ever have the technology to reach the closest star to the solar system?
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Proxima Centauri it is located approximately 4.2 light years away and is part of the Centauri star system, the minor star of the three that make up the entire system.
For years this star has been observed with the most powerful telescopes in the world, and thanks to this, we have discovered that the star Proxima Centauri has at least one exoplanet that could have the conditions to host living beings.
This makes reaching this star a matter of great importance for humanity since this distant world could have living beings or be a human settlement in the future.
But how difficult would it be with modern technology to get to this star?
In short, a LOT.
It would be tricky; it would be the most challenging feat that the human race could perform in the distant future and one of the most important if it were to be achieved; suffice it to say that, in the modern era, even with the technology we have we have not managed to send a spacecraft out of our solar system, nor have we taken humans beyond the moon.
Not a human being has set foot on another planet other than Earth, so you can be entirely sure that there is still a long time before we manage to send the first spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, but ... How much left precisely? Do we have any estimated dates for when we might reach this star? Let's see what the science says about it.
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00:00 Intro
1:51 So close and so far
3:50 What propulsion systems can we use?
4:29 VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket)
5:38 Pulsed nuclear propulsion
6:56 Solar sails
8:28 Laser candles
9:48 Star Shot Project
Conclusion
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