“The ISEE-3 spacecraft was launched by NASA in 1978 to study the the interaction between the Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind and was operated up to the year 1997. In…
Month: August 2014
ISEE-3 Post-Lunar Flyby Status and Modification of Mission Goals
Figure 1: ISEE-3 Trajectory Through Aug 2016 (image courtesy www.see.com) Communication with the ISEE-3 satellite was successfully re-established with the goal of commanding the satellite to change its trajectory with the goal…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Status 26 August 2014
We’re organizing our international citizen science Deep Space Network of dishes and hope to have live science data updates online on a regular basis in the next few weeks. We’re mailing out…
Earth Science Challenges and Crowdsourcing From NASA
NASA Picks Top Earth Data Challenge Ideas, Opens Call for Climate Apps “NASA has selected four ideas from the public for innovative uses of climate projections and Earth-observing satellite data. The agency…
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy, Hannah E. Harris, Pedro Russo “Public engagement (PE) initiatives can lead to a long term public support of science. However most of the…
SETI Institute Continues to Listen to ISEE-3
Good sighting this week of the #ISEE3 spacecraft from the Allen Telescope Array. http://t.co/MeGamRApUx pic.twitter.com/7E8ywQS6Uw — Jon Richards (@jrseti) August 21, 2014
Citizen Science and Interstellar Dust
Mysteries of Space Dust Revealed “With the help of a distributed science project called Stardust@home, volunteer space enthusiasts from around the world combed through the video, flagging tracks they believed were created…
ISEE-3 Reboot Team at the Stanford Dish
View of the Stanford University 60 foot dish last night. Â The ISEE-3 team has been working to install hardware to allow this dish to receive telemetry.
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 14 August 2014
A Google Chrome Experiment Visualizes The 36-Year Journey Of A Spacecraft, Fastcode Design “The design of A Spacecraft for All offers a new ways to tell these stories, rather than relying on…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 13 August 2014
Data From the Rescued ISEE-3 Spacecraft Have a New Internet Home “… instead of heading to L1, ISEE-3 cruised gracefully past the Earth and moon, continuing onward into its 355-day orbit, gradually…
ISEE-3 and GOES: Type III Burst Correlated to Solar Flares
Source: University of Iowa, NASA