"NASA's Bold Plan: Swarming Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes"

NASA has selected the Swarming Proxima Centauri project for Phase I development, aiming to utilize gram-scale spacecraft propelled by a 100-gigawatt laser beamer to reach Proxima Centauri and its Earth-like exoplanet by the third quarter of this century. The project, led by Space Initiatives Inc. and the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, could have applications in space exploration, Earth observation, medicine, additive manufacturing, environmental studies, and more through the development of a coherent swarm of robotic probes.