Interstellar probe designed without FTL?

Thanks to enhanced space telescopy Earth has found some great candidate star systems for colonisation. But they are not yet ready to try sending people.

There's no new physics. However, the cost of getting into space has been substantially reduced from today's costs, let's say 0.5 percent current costs.

The world federation of space exploration has offered a prize to the best solution for the development and deployment of an interstellar probe. It will need to travel around 20 lightyears, but shall then send information back via radio comms of some sort.

There are two prizes available.

• Prize for orbital probe
• Prize for a lander

The lander has the option to be a seeder.

What did the winning entries look like?

posted about 7 years ago

Konchog‭

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