Looking For A Sister Earth At Alpha Centauri

Project Blue Mission For Earthlike Planets in Alpha Centauri Rallies Community Support

"Project Blue is a space science mission utilizing new developments in advanced optical telescope design to discover potentially habitable exoplanets in Earth's neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri -- what would be a historic discovery in humankind's pursuit of understanding our place in the universe and how life evolved here on Earth. As a privately-funded partnership of research organizations, universities, and industry, Project Blue seeks support from the global community of space science enthusiasts and aims to provide opportunities to take part in space exploration throughout the entire mission life cycle. On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, BoldlyGo Institute launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support the initial design phase of mission development. The organization hopes to raise a minimum of $175,000 from their IndieGoGo campaign to help carry out the CORE program to establish detailed requirements for the mission, design the initial system architecture, run computer simulations to test how robust the design is for detecting exoplanets, and engage with potential industry partners who could manufacture components of the mission."

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