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by imhoguy 2018 days ago
Send a sailcraft probe[0] to a star ~166.6 light years away with mean 0.2c speed which will take ~833 years. It must be programmed such that once at destination it should shot a laser message back to earth which will take ~166.6 years. Is that calc correct?

[0] https://phys.org/news/2020-05-interstellar-probes-starshot.h...