SETI

After hibernating its Allen Telescope Array back in April 2011 due to lack of funding, the SETI institute has announced it has now secured the funding to restart the ATA and resume search for extraterrestrial life. The telescope array consists of 42 20-feet-wide telescopes located some 300 miles north of San Francisco. Originally funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated $25 million to the project, the ATA had to go into hibernation after state budget cuts affected the...Read Full Story

SETI new funding is derived in part from the public , while others come from the United States Air Force for space programs their vigilance . World News- After stopping the search for aliens , now the Search for Extra -Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) continue the search. SETI Allen Telescope Array halt operations in April due to lack of funding . SETI now announced that they have secure financial condition and resumes the search for aliens through a telescope Allen Telescope Array ( ATA...Read Full Story

SETI's Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek, California. ANDY FLEMING reports on a reprieve for the multi million dollar Allen Telescope Array and the SETI Institute's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Some readers may be aware that mankind's enterprise to seek out other intelligent life in the cosmos, SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) had its plug pulled earlier this year, as reported here . Well the good news is that thousands of people thought that the search...Read Full Story

SETI's Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek, California. ANDY FLEMING reports on a reprieve for the multi million dollar Allen Telescope Array and the SETI Institute's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Some readers may be aware that mankind's enterprise to seek out other intelligent life in the cosmos, SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) had its plug pulled earlier this year, as reported here . Well the good news is that thousands of people thought that the search...Read Full Story

By Dr. Gerry Harp , Senior Astrophysicist, Center for SETI Research , SETI Institute , and Gail Jacobs Trained as a quantum mechanic, Dr. Gerry Harp was deeply interested in possibilities for using the multiple telescopes of the Allen Telescope Array to generate steerable "beams" on the sky - beams that could be far smaller than any single antenna could produce. Such beams don't emit anything, but work in reverse by capturing only energy that comes from the sky in a certain direction. Gerry...Read Full Story

Remember a while back when we wrote about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence’s (SETI) Allen Telescope Array (ATA) was shut down due to lack of funding? It seems the government wasn’t keen on supporting the search for our interstellar neighbors, so SETI turned to you for help. Guess what guys…we did it! The Allen Array is back in business! View full post on DVICERead Full Story

LOS ANGELES ( Reuters ) - A California institute plans to reboot its listening post for intelligent life in space, with private donations to replace government cutbacks. Back in April, due to a lack of funding, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) Institute was forced to shut down its $30 million radio telescope array designed to hear potential signals from aliens -- if they exist. But officials with the nonprofit institute in northern California 's Mountain View appealed for...Read Full Story