
Fermi Explorer
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Oct 31, 2026
Inside Starcloud’s $2B Space Factory
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13:06Adi OlteanGUEST
And we are capitalizing on that and using the same thing, the same technology in space as well.
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13:12Molly O’SheaHOST
For those who don't know about the Fermi Explorer mission, can you explain that and why it's significant for you?
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13:17Philip JohnstonGUEST
Yeah, so my co-founders Adi Ezra and I have created a nonprofit with a few others, Kamgifaran and others.
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13:25Philip JohnstonGUEST
We created a nonprofit to send the first spacecraft to the nearest star.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Will Be Killed Off - Deep Space Updates September 18th
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22:20Scott ManleyHOST
I did a whole video on this, you can go and watch it.
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22:24Scott ManleyHOST
On the 1st of September, the founders of the Orbital Data Center startup StarCloud, they stood up a nonprofit mission called Fermi Explorer.
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22:34Scott ManleyHOST
And this mission has one goal and that is to reach Alpha Centauri, about 80,000 years from now.
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22:41Scott ManleyHOST
Yeah, this is thinking long term.
Meeting the Astronauts of Artemis II
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2:10Ciara MurphyGUEST
Yes.
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2:11Ciara MurphyGUEST
So on the 1st of September, there is a U.S. nonprofit organization called Fermi Explorer Mission, and they've announced plans to launch launch humanity's first international interstellar spacecraft towards the Alpha Centauri system.
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2:25Ciara MurphyGUEST
And they're hoping to do this before the end of 2029.
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2:28Ciara MurphyGUEST
And it's a mission that's going to take about 80,000 years.
Gadgets & Gizmos: The slowing world, fishing for iPhones and AI cracking Napoleon's code
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3:03Simon RoseHOST
Yes.
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3:04Steve CaplinHOST
The Fermi Explorer.
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3:06Steve CaplinHOST
It is the first rocket mission to our newest star, Proxima Centauri.
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3:14Steve CaplinHOST
which they say will be launching in 2028.