ISEE-3 Reboot Project Is Already a Winner, editorial, Space News “Inspiration is a word that gets bandied about a lot in the space business, often as justification for multibillion-dollar programs that never…
Month: June 2014
Detection of ISEE-3 With a 4.5 Meter Dish in Estonia
Viljo Allik, ES5PC, a member of ESTCube-1 student satellite team at Tartu Observatory, Estonia writes: “I did some receiving experiments today, both on 2217.5 MHz LHCP and 2270.4 MHz RHCP. The RHCP…
HAM Operator Detection of ISEE-3 With an 8 Foot Dish
@ISEE3Reboot @baudline #ISEE3 Today the signal is 1.5dB more strong and and carrier at -23Hz since yesterday pic.twitter.com/U71RWl9wN7 — eb3frn (@eb3frn) June 8, 2014 To detect #ISEE3 a 8 foot dish as…
What ISEE-3 Really Looks Like
This is what ISEE-3 really looks like. It has 4 large antennas that span 91 meters and it spins at 19 rpm – once every 3 seconds. Click on image to enlarge.
Using Doppler Calculations To Determine ISEE-3 Spin Rate
We already have telemetry that shows ISEE-3 to be spinning at 19.16 rpm (spec is 19.75 ±0.02 rpm). According to a tweet by @baudline (Erik) “This Doppler oscillation measurement shows that the…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
After decades of silence, a vintage spacecraft says hello to Earth, Planetary Society “A group of space enthusiasts and vintage hardware experts walk into a radio observatory. They contact a 36-year-old spacecraft…
ISEE-3 Status Report 6 June 2014 (afternoon)
Here is what 64bps telemetry looks like coming from ISEE-3 after our successful remote commanding today. Click on image to enlarge. Today’s pass with ISEE-3 at Arecibo was under command from a…
Updated Ephemeris for ISEE-3 at JPL Horizons
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 defaults Object Data Page Revised: Jun 05, 2014 ISEE-3/ICE Spacecraft -111 (Heliocentric) UPDATE (2014-Jun-05): Trajectory updated to JPL…
Using GNU Radio to Talk to ISEE-3
How to Talk to a 36-year-old Space Probe (ISEE-3) with GNU Radio, a USRP, and a Big Dish, John Malsbury As many of you have probably read, the ISEE-3 Reboot Project was…
ISEE-3 In The News – Globally
Свой космос: как спасают станцию ISEE-3 Компьютерра У космоса есть нехорошая особенность: он быстро надоедает. И так же, как сорок лет назад «приелся» человек на Луне, сегодня мало кого восхищают гоняющие по…
Screengrab of today's ISEE-3 pass at Arecibo
Screengrab of today’s ISEE-3 pass as observed at Arecibo and operated remotely from ISEE-3 Mission Control at Moffett Field, CA. Click on image to enlarge.
ISEE-3 Status Report 5 June 2014 (Afternoon)
We are doing a receive run – NOW – from Arecibo controlled via laptop from ISEE-3 Mission Control at McMoons in northern California. Taking data received on 29 May 2014, we have…