Project Daedalus - The ranking of nearby stellar systems for exploration

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Feb 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976jbis...29...94m&link_type=abstract

British Interplanetary Society, Journal, vol. 29, Feb. 1976, p. 94-100.

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Interstellar Travel, Mission Planning, Extrasolar Planets, Extraterrestrial Life, Stellar Evolution

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A simple analysis is presented which assigns weights to various factors relevant to near-stellar exploration and which allows the importance of missions to the nearby stars to be assessed relative to each other. The analysis is based on a scheme originated by Archer and O'Donnell (1971), but several modifications have been made. The ranking method which results has been applied to 13 nearby stars and stellar systems. Alpha Centauri A/B has the highest rank of any mission considered, with Barnard's Star second (with a mission importance of about 30% of the first ranked mission), followed by 61 Cygni A/B, Tau Ceti, and epsilon Eridani (about 20% importance).

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