[Interview] Why Is Nobody Talking About Multi-Stage Interstellar Spaceships?
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Interstellar travel might not be as impossible as most people think. Especially if we adopt the multi-stage approach that we already use in everyday rockets. How can we do it and what results we can expect? Finding out in this interview.

👉 Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins: https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI)

🟣 Guest: Jeff Greason https://www.el-sky.com)

📜 Sunbeam: Near-sun statites as beam platforms for beam-driven rockets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524003837?via%3Dihub)

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• 00:00:00 Intro

• 00:01:54 Sail close to the Sun

• 00:12:34 Interstellar velocities

• 00:28:03 Transferring power to spacecraft

• 00:33:09 Data transfer

• 00:43:31 Multi-stage interstellar ship

• 00:47:06 How will a realistic mission look like

• 01:09:51 Current obsessions

• 01:12:49 Final thoughts

📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/E74Kg8NpCyE)

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