11/18/08

Space programs in Ukraine

Ukrainian Scientists to Send Messages into Deep Space

By Katya Shtamburg, Nova Mova staff writer, from Internet sources.

Ukrainian scientists are preparing to beamed messages to a planet located 20 light years from Earth in the hope that they will reach intelligent alien life.

Around 500 pictures, drawings and text messages will be transmitted by a giant radio-telescope in Ukraine normally used to track asteroids. The target planet was chosen as scientists suppose that it could be inhabited by some forms of life.

The topics to be sent will vary from the environment, politics and world peace, to family relationships and the sender’s first kiss. After being translated into a binary format, the 500 selected messages will be sent 120 trillion miles into space via high-powered radio waves from the National Space Agency of Ukraine’s RT-70 radar telescope in Evpatoria, Crimea. The beamed communication will be transmitted at 0600 GMT, passing the moon in just 1.7 seconds and taking less than seven hours to leave our solar system.

Coordinators of the project hope the hi-tech package will reach its target – the planet Gliese 581C – in early 2029. The point might simply be: “well, here we are, and we’re intelligent enough to build a radio transmitter.” So if anybody’s out there and they receive that signal, they at least will know it came from a star system and planet with a developed form of life on it.

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