This poster presentation by Keith Cowing and Dennis Wingo was produced for the NASA SSERVI Exploration Science Forum 21-23 July 2014. Click on image for full poster (PDF) Introduction Any space mission…
Month: July 2014
ISEE-3 In The New York Times
Lost and Found in Space: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All, op ed, Keith Cowing, New York Times “NASA likes to say that “space is hard,” but to make itself relevant to the…
ISEE-3 In The News
Vintage NASA Probe, Once Abandoned in Space, Still Has Fuel, Space.com “After refusing to fire its engines last week for a course correction, a vintage NASA spacecraft did produce a bit of…
ISEE-3 Status Report 18 July 2014
During our pass at Arecibo today we managed to get some propulsion out of thruster K. We’re looking at how this was accomplished with an eye toward repeating it. We expect to…
ISEE-3 Status 17 July 2014
Our window with Arecibo opens tomorrow (Friday) at 12:13 pm ET. We will continue with our plumbing and electrical testing and see if we can get the propulsion system operating again. #ISEE3…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
Space.com: To Restart Vintage NASA Probe, Private Team Turns to the ‘Borg “No one on our team is an experienced hydrazine expert,” he said. “After receiving a few e-mails from people who…
ISEE-3 Status Report 16 July 2014
During our interaction with ISEE-3 today we tried a variety of valve and thruster selections using both sides of the propulsion system combined with tank and fuel line heating. Although we met…
ISEE-3 Current Location 15 July 2014
#ISEE3 (ICE) now at 0.986 AU from the Sun, 3.88 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/JD1AJFpQZO — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 16, 2014
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
Space Dream Revived in an Abandoned McDonald’s, Bloomberg View “Can a group of citizen scientists working out of an abandoned California McDonald’s re-energize U.S. space exploration? Thirty years ago, that question would…
We Are Borg: Crowdsourced ISEE-3 Engineering and the Collective Mind of the Internet
Dennis Wingo: We are Now Living in a Science Fiction World. In the science fiction universe of Star Trek, set several hundred years in the future, when we are a spacefaring civilization,…
ISEE-3 Status Report 15 July 2014
Our next window at Arecibo is tomorrow (Wednesday) between 12:19 pm and 3:03 pm ET. During that opportunity we intend to attempt a deep space plumbing repair on board ISEE-3 and then…
Photos: An Insider's Look at ISEE-3 – Volume 2
“I have been following your effort to revive ISSE-3 with great interest since I worked on this project as an employee of Fairchild Space Company. Attached is a picture of the satellite…