Astropulse: Whatever Became of This Project?

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Dan Smith - 27 Aug 2005 04:20 GMT

From what I read just now, somewhere, Astropulse is a project to find
microsecond duration pulses in some portion of the microwave spectrum,
presumably near the waterhole, using the computing power of the seti@ home
network and the database already on tape, in Berkeley. Beta testing was
supposedly in progress in 2002.
Does anyone out there know the status of Astropulse? Is it up and
running?

Dan Smith
dmsmith@io.com
Austin, TX

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f/fgeorge - 27 Aug 2005 05:08 GMT

> From what I read just now, somewhere, Astropulse is a project to find
>microsecond duration pulses in some portion of the microwave spectrum,
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>dmsmith@io.com
>Austin, TX

No it is not currently up and running. It ran into management issues
during the transition from an idea to the implementation phase. There
were people working on making it work under Boinc and then they ran
out of money and everyone just stopped working on it. The project is
not dead, just in a holding pattern.

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Space Forum / SETI / August 2005

Astropulse: Whatever Became of This Project?