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Super-Fast Spacecraft Could Slow Down Using Alpha Centauri’s Starlight as Brakes

Traveling at 20 percent the speed of light, scientists are worried that the Hawking-backed Breakthrough Starshot nanoprobes will be moving too fast to do any science — unless they use starlight pressure to slow them down at their destination.

from Space.com bit.ly/2kYdWx3