Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures

@inproceedings{SocasNavarro2021ConceptsFF,
  title={Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures},
  author={Hector Socas-Navarro and Jacob Haqq‐Misra and Jason T. Wright and Ravi kumar Kopparapu and James N. Benford and Ross Davis},
  year={2021},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:232092198}
}
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