Educator's Guide to Life Beyond Earth . ... Signal Sources . Detecting a Signal . ... Part of the survey was the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, also known as SETI. ... The JPL part of the project used radio telescopes of the Deep Space Network in California and Australia. ... The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, a privately-funded, non-profit organization that had been working on the HRMS, took over part of the effort aimed at discovering exterrestrial signals. ...

Albert A.Galeev is the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute (IKI RAN in Russian), Moscow, Russia. ... Prior to his promotion to the present position, for fifteen years (1973-1988), A.Galeev headed the Space Plasma Physics Department and together with his scientific team contributed to a number of successful international space projects. ... Postal Address Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... e-mail agaleev@iki.rssi.ru ...

HARP Gun (Photo by Peter . ... HARP, for High Altitude Research Project, was a study of the upper atmosphere by instruments shot from a cannon. ... The cannon which propelled the Martlet to the high atmosphere was the creation of Gerald Bull, a Canadian engineer who specialized in the design of cannon. ... When the cannon fired--its loud bang was heard all over Barbados--the airtight cover over the muzzle was blown away and the Martlet rose into the high atmosphere, to altitudes of 80-90 miles. ...