s have turned their electronic ears towards the skies. For many years, NASA participated in SETI projects, helping to refine radio astronomy technologies and redirecting the parameters of the sky search. In 1988, a new program strategy emerged from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Ames Research Center in Pasadena, California. This became known as the High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) or Project Phoenix. This differed from past SETI surveys in its scale and scope. Ames proposed to examine 1000 Sun like stars in a targeted search area, looking in particular for weak or sporadic signals. JPL would systematically sweep all directions in an all sky survey. The all sky survey would search the entire sky using the 1 to 10 Ghz window that newer equipment afforded (Thurber, 1995, 1). Millions of dollars were spent developing receivers capable of listening to 28 million channels simultaneously (Shostak, 1995, 2).
Operations for Project Phoenix got under way in October of 1992, but in the fall of 1993 Congress eliminated SETI
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