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If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
TechCrunch3 min read
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
The founders behind Starcloud, a startup with plans to operate a fleet of GPUs in orbit, have a new pitch for potential investors: a plan to send a tiny spacecraft on an 80,000-year journey to Alpha Centauri. If they do it, it will be the first human-built object explicitly aimed for another star, and the sixth to leave our solar system. Dubbed Fermi Explorer, the…
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