Hunting for Habitable Worlds in Alpha Centauri

The University of Sydney has signed a contract with EnduroSat to provide a custom-built mini satellite as the delivery system for the Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood (TOLIMAN) mission. TOLIMAN aims to look for potentially-habitable exoplanets in the Alpha Centauri system using the Astrometry Method. Breakthrough Initiatives is backing the project, which fits nicely with Breakthrough Starshot, a proposed interstellar mission that will leverage advances in miniaturization, advanced materials, and directed-energy propulsion to send a nanocraft to Alpha Centauri within a single lifetime (20 years).