This is a screen grab taken at Morehead State University during our second DSN pass with ISEE-3 on 27 June. Morehead was observing the session and recording data. If you look at…
Month: June 2014
Video: Communicating with a Space Probe using Software Defined Radio
Presentation at DorkBotSF on 24 June 2014 by Balint Seeber, Austin Epps, and John Malsbury.
ISEE-3 Status 27 June 2014: Another DSN Ranging Success
We had an even greater DSN pass today with ISEE-3. We managed to get ~30 minutes of data (11 range points) after achieving 2 way Doppler lock and ranging at a 47.5…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
A Retired Satellite Gets Back To Work, Here & Now (NPR) “After 31 years in space, ISEE-3 is finally coming home. The International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 was a humble satellite launched in…
ISEE-3 Status 26 June 2014: DSN Ranging Success
Just as our DSN window closed today we were able to get 2 way Doppler lock and ranging at 47.5 kHz offset. Â DSN got the four ranging points needed from ISEE-3. This…
RockOn Rocket With Student Experiments Launches Successfully
RockOn Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully “The RockOn Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket containing multiple student-built experiments launched successfully at 7:21 a.m. EDT on June 26, 2014 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia….
Tools Used in Tracking ISEE-3
#ISEE3 now at 0.97 AU from the Sun, 7.76 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/TcA2lglmHo — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) June 26, 2014 ADS helps reboot #ISEE3 with ODTK and STK Astrogator: http://t.co/f6X71STjAH…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Critical Communications, The Mad Spaceball “The ISEE-3 mission was launched in 1978. For those people that remember and who lived in that decade, computers and communications weren’t near as…
ISEE-3 Status 25 June 2014
Our Arecibo pass today was a short one – only 40 minutes. We had some commanding issues again – so there was no spin-up burn attempt made. We did manage to shut…
ISEE-3 Status 24 June 2014: We Almost Did The Spin-up Burn
During our session with Arecibo today we came very, very close to firing the thrusters on ISEE-3 for its spin-up maneuver. But we were not able to complete the process and fire…
NASA's OpenNEX Cloud Data
NASA Launches Earth Science Challenges with OpenNEX Cloud Data “NASA is launching two challenges to give the public an opportunity to create innovative ways to use data from the agency’s Earth science…
Updated Ephemeris for ISEE-3 at JPL Horizons 23 June 2014
Source: JPL HorizonsEphemeris Type:Â OBSERVERTarget Body:Â ICE Spacecraft (ISEE-3) [-111]Observer Location:Â Geocentric [500]Time Span:Â Start=2014-06-05, Stop=2014-07-05, Step=1 dTable Settings:Â defaultsObject Data Page Revised: Jun 23, 2014 ISEE-3/ICE Spacecraft (Heliocentric) UPDATE (2014-Jun-23): Trajectory updated to JPL solution #32…