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ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News

Posted on July 7, 2014

ISEE-3 Project Team Announces the Space Probes Engines are Fired Up, CrowdFund Insider

“Just a little over a month since the closing of their crowdfunding campaign on RocketHub campaign to the close, the team behind the ISEE-3 Reboot Project announced over the week that they have successfully fired up the space probe’s engines.”

Volunteers Will Try To Bring Old NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth Orbit, Space News

“The volunteer team attempting to resurrect NASA’s International Earth/Sun Explorer (ISEE)-3 observatory before it goes hurtling into orbit around the sun for thousands of years will attempt to boost the venerable spacecraft back into the Earth system July 8.”

Retired spaceflight engineer and team bring back to life a 3-decade-old spacecraft, Washington Post

“On July 2, the Cold War-era satellite fired its first thrusts since 1987, according to team members of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project. “All in all, a very good day,” co-leader Keith Cowing wrote in a blog post. Though made up largely of former NASA employees, ISEE-3 Reboot Project’s private group also has some younger space-lovers on board. “Some of our team members were not even born yet the last time the engines fired,” the team said via Twitter.”

36-Year-Old NASA Probe’s Engines Successfully Fired Up by Private Team, Scientific American

“ISEE-3 needs to be moved to put it in an advantageous position to communicate with Earth. In past interviews with Space.com, Cowing has said the group will focus on what to use the spacecraft for after rescuing it. Another priority will be seeing how well its 13 scientific instruments function. At least one instrument, the magnetometer, is working well enough to do science. “Recent magnetometer data shows recent solar event,” the team said via Twitter on Wednesday (July 1).”

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