The final-round nominees for the Worldbuilding Awards have been announced! Among those nominations are no less than four articles from Astra Planeta:
Wondrous Nature Award: Earth
Strength & Honour Award: Ares Program
Pillars of Progress Award: Warp Drive
Best Article: Alone Together
I am incredibly humbled to be nominated alongside these other amazing worldbuilders and their stunning work in the first place. VOTING HAS ENDED! Thanks to everyone who voted; tune in to the awards ceremony on May 18th to find out whether any of these articles won!
Breakthrough Proxima Mission
Discovery, Exploration
Data return: 2049 - 2050 CE
2023 CE marked the beginning of humanity's ventures outside their solar system. On December 15 of 2023, the first hundredfold of the Breakthrough Starshot microprobe fleet launched on an escape velocity vector out of the Sol system and towards Proxima Centauri. Racing through interstellar space at 20% the speed of light, the fleet performed a thorough fly-through of the Proxima Centauri system in 2045, with the data reaching Earth just over four years later. After passing through the system, the microprobes gradually ceased communications with Earth until the last signal was sent on October 30, 2046.
Mission Timeline
2023
Dec. 15
Breakthrough Fleet launched to Proxima Centauri2045
May 7 thru Aug. 22
Fleet flythrough Proxima system- data return: 2049-2050
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