Abstract
Conference Title: 2014 International Workshop on Antenna Technology: "Small Antennas, Novel EM Structures and Materials, and Applications" (iWAT) Conference Start Date: 2014, March 4 Conference End Date: 2014, March 6 Conference Location: Sydney, Australia Space exploration is an exciting scientific endeavor, and it has recently engendered considerable recent interest because of the success of the Mars mission, among others. We have been intrigued by the prospect of communicating with life in other planets, or at least finding their existence, even if in the form of microbes not visible to the naked eye. Although we have not really had any success in locating such life to-date, many scientists believe the chances are good that we will at least find living organisms, if not ET and his friends, sometime in not too distant a future. Thus our search for life in other planets and distant galaxies continues unabated. The success in this endeavor will depend squarely on our ability to meet the challenges of designing the sensors, and antennas which relay the information gathered by the sensors back down to earth, where they can be processed by astro-biophysicists, for instance.