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The first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.

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LaserSETI is project, instrument, and set of observatories designed to scan the all the sky, all the time for extrasolar laser pulses.

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Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent beings in other star systems.

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Andre Renard, The CHIME Collaboration
Mar 30, 2022
CHIME to Construct Outrigger Telescope to Search for FRBs at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory
Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors
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SETI Institute in the News – Media Roundup. March 1-15, 2022
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Mar 29, 2022
Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of March 21, 2022
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Mar 28, 2022
Shelley Wright to Receive SETI Institute’s 2022 Drake Award
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Pamela Harman Recognized for Her Service by Iowa State University
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