Breakthrough Initiatives Yuri Milner

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in july 2015, milner launched breakthrough initiatives, scientific program investigate question of life in universe. announced initiatives @ royal society in london, alongside stephen hawking, martin rees, frank drake, geoff marcy , ann druyan.


three initiatives have been announced far:



breakthrough listen
breakthrough message
breakthrough starshot

the first, breakthrough listen, invest $100 million on 10 years in search evidence of civilizations beyond earth. utilizing green bank, parkes, lick, , fast observatories, listen searching radio , laser signals nearest million stars, nearest 100 galaxies, , plane , center of milky way. initiative use seti@home distributed computing project.


the second initiative, breakthrough message, $1 million annual prize digital messages representing earth , humanity, decoded civilization. messages not sent space until global discussion on ethics of such move has taken place.


the third project, breakthrough starshot, announced april 12, 2016. starshot us$100 million program develop proof-of-concept light sail spacecraft fleet capable of making journey alpha centauri @ 20% speed of light (60 million m/s or 215 million km/h) taking 20 years there, , 4 years notify earth of successful arrival.


on april 20, 2017, breakthrough discuss conference held, during results of year worth of data analysis discussed. according researchers, 692 stars analyzed.








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