SETI public: Pioneer 10: Farewell to an old friend

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We first met at Venus, in the desert. Barely a teen, our new friend was already a well-seasoned traveler when we received its hailing signal in March of 1985. NASA SETI team members and the local staff crowded around the monitor of a Sun 100 workstation to see a signal from beyond our solar system, a white diagonal line boldly marching down the computer screen. This cheery greeting was from the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. We were using a research and development antenna, the "Venus" station in the Mojave Desert, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network when we saw the first real demonstration of our prototype signal processor’s capability. Since that moment, Pioneer 10 (often referred to affectionately as P10) has been an unofficial member of our SETI team.

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