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| Industry | Search for extraterrestrial intelligence |
|---|---|
| Founded | New York, United States (June 18, 2013) |
| Founder | Pierre Fabre, President |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Jamie King, CEO Narayana Ackley, CTO Eric Eim, COO Jacob Haqq-Misra, CSO Ernesto Qualizza, CMO |
| Services | Messages to extraterrestrial intelligence |
Number of employees | 3 |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Lone Signal was a crowdfunded active SETI project designed to send interstellar messages from Earth to a possible extraterrestrial civilization. Founded by businessman Pierre Fabre and supported by several entrepreneurs, Lone Signal was based at the Jamesburg Earth Station in Carmel, California.[3]
The project's beacon, which commenced continuous operations on June 17, 2013, transmitted short, 144-character messages by citizens of Earth to the red dwarf star Gliese 526, located 17.6 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Boötes.[4] The Lone Signal team hoped to earn US$100 million to construct a network of satellite dishes across the Earth's surface, which could beam messages to many regions of the Milky Way galaxy.[3] The project ceased transmission shortly after it began, due to lack of funding.
- ^ "Executives". Lone Signal. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ^ "Science & Tech". Lone Signal. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ^ a b Gohring, Nancy (June 17, 2013). "Lone Signal aims to send "hello!" tweets to extraterrestrials". CNNMoney. CNN. Archived from the original on June 25, 2013.
- ^ "GJ 526". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved June 21, 2013.