NASA’s Zombie Spacecraft Learns to Fire Its Engines, The Atlantic “The quest to save the ISEE-3–a long-lost NASA probe launched in the disco era and abandoned in the dot-com boom–might just succeed….
Month: July 2014
ISEE-3 Status Report 8 July 2014 (evening)
We managed to conduct the first segment (composed of 63 thruster pulses) but encountered problems with the second and halted the remainder of segment firings. Today’s burn was supposed to be 7.32987…
ISEE-3 Mission Control Overview
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ISEE-3 Status Report 7 July 2014 (evening)
As many of you know, last week we fired the thrusters on ISEE-3 to do a spin-up burn. Before the burn (actually 11 pulses on the spacecraft’s hydrazine thrusters) the spin rate…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
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,…
Updated Ephemeris for ISEE-3 at JPL Horizons 3 July 2014
Source: JPL HORIZONSEphemeris Type: OBSERVERTarget Body: ICE Spacecraft (ISEE-3)Observer Location: Geocentric [500]Time Span : Start=2014-07-04, Stop=2014-08-03, Step=1 dTable Settings: defaultsObject Data Page UPDATE (2014-Jul-03): Trajectory update from ISEE-3 Reboot based on Arecibo…
What Can NASA Learn From ISRO?
NASA Needs an Indian Tutorial, Bloomberg Review “What can the U.S. space program learn from the Indian one? Not much, if the standard is outer-space achievement: India’s modest record mostly includes feats…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
ISEE-3 Propulsion System Awakens at 11th Hour, Space News “If ISEE-3 makes it back to Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1, Cowing and Wingo plan to command the spacecraft from mission control McMoons: an…
Additional ISEE-3 Spin-up Confirmation
Further confirmation of the ISEE-3 spin-up burn yesterday. Before the burn (actually 11 pulses on the spacecraft’s hydrazine thrusters) the spin rate of ISEE-3 was 19.16 rpm. After spin-up burn it was…
ISEE-3 Current Location 3 July 2014
#ISEE3 now at 0.974 AU from the Sun, 6.28 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/9DjPaUoVh3 — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 3, 2014
Jóvenes por el Espacio Grupo México Listens to ISEE-3
From Pat Barthelow on Facebook: (translation): Hey Folks! Just heard from my Moonbounce friends (Jan, PA3FXB and team) in Dwingeloo Holland (PI9CAM) who have a 25 meter Moonbounce dish, that they are…
Notes on the ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer From the Original Principal Investigator
Ed Smith, Original Original Principal Investigator on ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer: The effort to recapture the ISEE-/ ICE spacecraft has just achieved a notable scientific success. Data recovered from the spacecraft very…