Vintage ISEE-3 satellite makes long-awaited flyby on Sunday, Los Angeles Times
“The lunar flyby will occur on Aug. 10 at 11:16 a.m. PDT, at which time members of ISEE-3 Reboot Project will begin collecting science data from the spacecraft’s instruments and make it available to the public.”
Rudderless Craft to Get Glimpse of Home Before Sinking Into Space’s Depths, NY Times
“Mr. Wingo said his team had turned on eight of the spacecraft’s 14 experiments and recruited the help of some of the original mission scientists. They include Michael Coplan, a physicist at the University of Maryland who, along with his students, helped build the ion composition instrument, which counted different types of charged atoms. Dr. Coplan had largely forgotten about the experiment after they received the last data in the late 1980s. This year, to clear space in a laboratory he would be sharing with another scientist, he threw out his ISEE-3 data notebooks. Then, in June, one of his former students heard about the reboot project and told Dr. Coplan, who went to the waste bin and found the notebooks. “That sat around for a while, fortunately,” he said.”
Google Lets You Watch Live Data From NASA’s Long Lost Satellite, Gizmodo
The real action happens tomorrow, with a live lunar fly-by demo, interviews with the original NASA scientists and the Reboot team now monitoring ISEE-3, and a real-time data feed. But Google’s deeply-interactive website for the prodigal satellite has plenty of cool stuff to play with today, whether it’s learning about the history of ISEE-3 or watching the live data it’s constantly beaming down.