Starcloud Plans 80,000-Year Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri by 2029
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Starcloud, a Tampa-based orbital data-center startup, has formed a nonprofit to fund an uncrewed refrigerator-sized probe aimed at Alpha Centauri by 2029, a mission expected to take about 80,000 years and backed by a roughly $15 million budget.
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