Zaitsev, Alexander
Chief scientist at the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of Radio
Engineering and Electronics. Zaitsev also heads the group which transmits
Team Encounter's interstellar messages
using the Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC) in Ukraine (for details of
these messages, see CETI) and also serves as
the SETI League's Regional Coordinator
for Russia. His career has focused on three main fields: (1) The theory
behind, and the design and implementation of, radar devices used in the
study of Venus, Mars,
and Mercury. Specifically, Zaitsev is interested
in direct digital synthesizers of coherent radar signals (the subject of
his M.S. thesis, 1981). (2) Near-Earth asteroid radar research (the subject
of his dissertation, 1997). (3) Interstellar radio messaging (his chief
current present). He is a member of the Space Guard Foundation. In 1992
Zaitsev led a team of radio astronomers which successfully tracked the asteroid
4179 Toutatis to a distance of 3.6 million km from Earth, using the Evpatoria
70-m (230-ft) diameter dish as the transmitting antenna. Together with his
colleagues, Zaitsev has also conducted pioneering work in radar composition
analysis studies of asteroids and planetary bodies. Following one of his
institute's organizational goals of finding beneficial applications for
scientific achievements, Zaitsev has developed concepts for radar composition
analysis and tracking of near Earth asteroids and comets to better understand
if they could pose a future hazard to Earth. Zaitsev received his B.S. degree
in radio engineering from the Moscow Mining University in 1967, and his
M.S. and Ph.D. in radar astronomy from the Institute of Radio Engineering
and Electronics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow.
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