What is the relationship between ongoing private sector fundraising for the Allen Telescope Array and fundraising for the Carl Sagan Center?
Private-sector fundraising for the Carl Sagan Center represents a new effort that will complement rather than compete with the SETI Institute’s traditional fundraising for SETI research. Over the past dozen years, the SETI Institute has raised over $70 million to search for signals of technology from extraterrestrial sources. Such efforts led to the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) project. The initial research and development funding for the ATA came from Paul Allen of Microsoft, and so the facility bears his name. Development of the array, including populating the facility with roughly 350 state-of-the-art radio telescopes, will require ongoing private-sector fundraising. Due to changes in federal science budgets and priorities, CSC science can only proceed uninterrupted with a concerted effort to raise private-sector funds. This new fundraising effort will complement new collaborations and renewed efforts to gain access to available government funding. The two private-sector fundraising
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