Why Is Nobody Talking About Multi-Stage Interstellar Spaceships?

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Interstellar travel might not be as impossible as most people think. Especially if we adopt the multi-stage approach that we already use in everyday rockets. How can we do it and what results we can expect? Finding out in this interview. 👉 Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins: https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 🟣 Guest: Jeff Greason https://www.el-sky.com 📜 Sunbeam: Near-sun statites as beam platforms for beam-driven rockets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524003837?via%3Dihub 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:54 Sail close to the Sun 00:12:34 Interstellar velocities 00:28:03 Transferring power to spacecraft 00:33:09 Data transfer 00:43:31 Multi-stage interstellar ship 00:47:06 How will a realistic mission look like 01:09:51 Current obsessions 01:12:49 Final thoughts 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Mastodon: astrodon.social/@fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.