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MOP drew the attention of the U. S. Congress, where the program was ridiculed and canceled a year after its start.

SETI advocates continued without government funding, and in 1995 the nonprofit SETI Institute of Mountain View, California resurrected the MOP program under the name of Project " Phoenix ", backed by private sources of funding.

Project Phoenix, under the direction of Jill Tarter, is a continuation of the targeted search program from MOP and studies roughly 1, 000 nearby Sun-like stars.

From 1995 through March 2004, Phoenix conducted observations at the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia, the radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, and the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

The project observed the equivalent of 800 stars over the available channels in the frequency range from 1200 to 3000 MHz.

The search was sensitive enough to pick up transmitters with 1 GW EIRP to a distance of about 200 light years.

According to Miss Tarter, in 2012 it costs around "$ 2 million a year to keep SETI research going at the SETI Institute " and approximately 10 times that to support " all kinds of SETI activity around the world.