Anu Bonthalapati

78,000 years! That is how long it will take for a mission designed by the team at @FermiExplorer. But this isn't any ordinary mission. It is going out towards our first star, Alpha Centauri.

So when Philip Johnston, founder of Fermi Explorer, announced this once in a lifetime mission, I HAD TO bring him on the show.

The Fermi Explorer Mission has a goal of launching a minimum viable spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, leaving in 3 years and arriving in around 80,000 years.

Chapters 📌:
A 78,000-year journey
Fermi Explorer’s mission to Alpha Centauri
The Fermi paradox and humanity’s future
The Voyager inspiration
Spacecraft design, power, and propulsion
The Oberth effect, explained
First Resonance (sponsor)
Solar escape and Jupiter gravity assists
The $10–15 million mission estimate
Communicating from deep space
Science, art, and messages from children
The team and potential collaborators
A community effort: how to get involved

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Learn more about how you can get involved in the Fermi Explorer mission here: fermiexplorer.org

Excited to see this company build the future!

And we are right on target. Starship is about to start flying pretty regularly 🎯

Basically Blue's iteration of Raptor 1 -> Raptor 2 -> Raptor 3

This documentary really exemplifies the risk posture of SpaceX 💯

The big question engineers asked before a go-to-orbit poll on Flight 14 was not, "Is it risky to hit go on the orbital insertion burn with anomalous data"; rather...