Active Message Cloaking

Description
An expensive technology; but worth saving up for. Mastering Active Message Cloaking gives you something even stronger than privileged access to the shuttle pilot. It gives you the ability to read the pilot's message before anyone else on earth - and - should you choose to (though I'm sure your agency would never stoop to such low tactics...) change ten characters of the message to suit your own agenda. The other agencies will never know that the message they are receiving isn't from the pilot verbatim.

Cost
- One FUNDAMENTAL example of all three research types Active Message Cloaking DOES NOT require a free hardware slot; it is an upgrade to existing interferometry equipment on the dish

Impact
Once researched, there will be a short delay between all messages leaving the shuttle and reaching earth. During this time, you will be given advanced notice of the message the shuttle will send earth. During this time, you will be allowed to change up to ten characters of the message arbitrarily. This CAN affect prestige deriving from messages - if you changes the message, "The ESA is the best agency" to "RosCom is the best agency" the game would, to all intents and purposes, treat RosCom as having earned the prestige (the pilot might be a bit confused how their message was altered though)

The exact length of the delay is variable, but appears to have something to do with the shuttle's generator cycle time; the closer to the end of the turn the message is received the less time you will have to alter it.

Future Research
If you can somehow afford it, you could repeat this research to gain the ability to alter a further ten characters of the message.

Otherwise, this is almost certainly as far as we can take interferometry