C-0031 Under review MODERATE certainty
Within verified physics the CEO's 'stream, don't store' reframe has exactly one working architecture: beamed energy. The rocket equation is what makes storage fatal (C-0014: stopping multiplies flyby fuel by 11.4), and beaming removes the exponential because the power plant stays home. The corpus now holds a peer-reviewed, quantitative precedent for the hardest segment — arriving without carrying fuel: Heller & Hippke show the target stars themselves can decelerate an incoming photon sail via photogravitational swings, with maximum injection speed about 13,800 km/s (4.6 percent of c; the percent sign is stripped by the canonicaliser in the quoted span) for their sail parameters, giving 95 years Earth to alpha Cen A. The architecture that follows for a jump-mission support line is: high-power beaming for outbound acceleration, stellar photon pressure plus gravity assists for arrival — with the beam-power scale for a crewed ship still unpriced in the corpus and flagged as the open engineering question.
Standing our synthesis · interpretation · TRL 1 Assumes Heller-Hippke sail: mass-to-area 7.6e-4 g/m^2 class (graphene-like), their stated parameters; deceleration uses alpha Cen A/B photon pressure + gravity assists; no beam from Earth on arrival Stops applying crewed-ship masses (the precedent is gram-to-kilogram sails; scaling laws unpriced here); beam-side engineering (aperture, pointing, power) not yet in corpus Note Front 2. Sheerin-Lubin 2021 (laser -> PV -> onboard electric propulsion) and Parkin 2018 (Starshot 100 GW system model) located in the harvest but NOT ingested (paywall/not-yet-fetched); the beam-power pricing claim is deliberately deferred until they enter the corpus.
What it rests on
E-0052 · S-0022 — Deceleration of high-velocity interstellar photon sails into bound orbits at alpha Centauri · numeric
…a sail with a mass-to-surface ratio (sigma) similar to graphene (7.6times10^-4rm gramm^-2) in orbit around Proxima is about 13800rm kms^-1 (4.6c), implying travel times from Earth to alpha Cen A and B of about 95 years and another 46 years (with a residual velocity of 1280rm kms^-1) to Proxima. The size of such a low- sigma sail…
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E-0053 · S-0022 — Deceleration of high-velocity interstellar photon sails into bound orbits at alpha Centauri · direct
…re we demonstrate how the stellar photon pressures of the stellar triple alpha Cen A, B, a nd C (Proxima) can be used together with gravity assists to decelerate incoming solar sails from Earth. The maximum injection speed at alpha Cen A to park a sail with a mass-to-surface ratio (si…
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