Strategic Timing and Geometry in SETI Targeting: Insights from Deep Space Network Uplink Logs
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Olivia Curtis and Pinchen Fan argue that focusing SETI on edge‑on exoplanets and scheduling observations to align with planetary conjunctions or occultations can greatly boost the odds of detecting deep-space network transmissions, since past DSN uplinks show emissions mainly along the ecliptic and a Mars observer could have an 80% chance to intercept a transmission in at least one window.
