abstract:Starshot is a huge "half-circle target" that was designed as a new way to enjoy clay target skeet shooting. Invented in Scotland in the 1980s, the structure stands almost 30 feet high and is divided into 12 scoring segments.
Within the next generation, BreakthroughStarshotaims todevelopananocraft a gram-scale robotic spaceprobeanduse alight beamto pushitto 20 percent of the speedof light.