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NASA Selects a Wild Plan to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri With Thousands of Tiny Probes (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] outstanding_bond@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

A very cool idea, however the headline is misleading - NASA has not even remotely committed to running this mission. They've selected the swarm project as one of 13 projects in their innovation program and given it up to $175k to study feasibility. That's roughly a postdoc for two years. This is far, far from committing the hundreds of millions or billions needed for the execution of this mission.