SETI Radio Telescopes Track New Horizons

[IndianaGreen]

Pluto Mission News
November 8, 2008
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu

________________________________________

SETI Radio Telescopes Track New Horizons

The New Horizons spacecraft has a new “audience” for the electronic signals it beams back to Earth.

In a successful demonstration of its growing capabilities, the Allen Telescope Array detected transmissions from New Horizons while the spacecraft was more than a billion miles from home. The SETI Institute routinely observes spacecraft such as New Horizons, which serve as an excellent test signal for confirming the correct functioning and effectiveness of the SETI signal-detection systems.

For the full story, visit: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/110708.php.

________________________________________


New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky, icy objects beyond. Principal Investigator Alan Stern leads a mission team that includes the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, Ball Aerospace Corporation, the Boeing Company, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, KinetX, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, University of Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a number of other firms, NASA centers and university partners. For more information on the mission, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu.

[AndyTiedye]

1. Did Anyone Else Read that as "Alien Telescope Array" the First Time?

…the Allen Telescope Array detected…