Question by the l: Send about 10000 rotating mirrors to Alpha Centuri stars to rotate around them serving as a solar sail pad?
the rotating mirrors being made from the oort cloud then as the mirrors rotate around the two stars then a solar sail could use the gravity and also the mirrors for photon acceleration
so the solar sail couldnt be making acceleration figure eight around the two stars…(forget about the prima Centuri actually would be the launch pad)
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Answer by maary_x
the mirrors would be non exsistant because it would take time for the actual gravitational exsistance of the stars to hit the mirrors and bounce back,by that time the stars would have moved and the gravitional pull would no longer be there. The mirros wouldnt nessicaraly be non ecistant, but they wouldnt have a purpose at all.
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Voyager probe isn’t the fastest deep space probe out there but i don’t have any info on New Horizons probe, but to get to the nearest solar system beside ours it would take 75,000 year to get there travelling at the speed Voyager is travelling at, so there would have to be a major leap in propulsion technology before anything like that could happen.