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Anonymous Sat Jul 2 19:53:05 2022 No.14621042 [View]
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>>14621003
Assembling a 100 GW power source and laser array on Earth would be hard, doing it in space on a near-term timeline is absurd.
>>14621015
>By making use of a powered gravity assist in close proximity to the sun, a sail-craft may be propelled to over 25 AU/year
https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-8-5-722&id=451120
That's 2,530 years to travel one AU.
>>14621029
>20 Years
Chemical
>50 Years
Chemical
>100 years
Possibly laser propulsion. Reaching orbit is a solved problem, cost is the issue.

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