I know it's 4.22 light years away, so i know that a manned mission won't happen any time soon with current technology, but what about an unmanned probe? Are there any current technologies that could propel even a small probe close enough to the speed of light to get there in a human lifetime?|||We don't have the technology to travel anywhere close to the speed of light yet. The fastest object created by human is Helios probe, which travels at 157,078 mph (43.6 miles per second), and the speed of light is 670,615,200 mph (186,282 miles per second)
Travelling at the speed of Helios probe (157,078 mph) it would take 18,016 years to reach Proxima Centuri.
I really don't think they'll be sending anything to Proxima Centuri in the near future.
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