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The prospect of sending probes on an interstellar mission is often accompanied by thoughts of high costs, decades of planning and large spacecraft. That’s not necessarily the case, though, according to the Institute for Interstellar Studies (i4is), whose goal is to ultimately take humanity out beyond the Solar System. “We believe it’s possible to actually launch probes into deep space, whether it’s outside the Kuiper Belt, into the Oort Cloud.