Month: August 2014
ISEE-3 Signal Seen at the Allen Telescope Array
“The ISEE3 spacecraft made its closest approach to earth today. We were able to detect the transmitter carrier. This was the position of the ISEE3 spacecraft at the time the signal we…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 11 August 2014
Google’s New Chrome Experiment Tells A Story Of The ISEE-3, PC Tech “Unless you’re a rocket scientist, you’ve probably never heard the story of the International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) – yet…
Waving Goodbye To ISEE-3
(top): Attendees at ISEE-3 flyby at McMoons doing the PR version of waving goodbye to ISEE-3 up in the sky. (bottom): Attendees at ISEE- 3 flyby at McMoons doing the technically accurate…
Google Hangout: A Spacecraft for All: The Live ISEE-3 Lunar Flyby
Join the hangout live as the ISEE-3 spacecraft makes it’s long-awaited lunar flyby after 36 years in interplanetary space. Flip between the 3D realtime trajectory and the live video program. Live from…
Updated Ephemeris for ISEE-3
Source: JPL Horizons: NOTE: No new measurements since July 15 despite some potential unmodeled thruster pulses just prior to that. However, Arecibo signal strength on August 5th suggests s41 was within ~100…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 10 August 2014
ISEE-3 Becomes A Spacecraft For All In Today’s Lunar Flyby, io9 “Our plucky crowdfunded spacecraft has been getting into all sorts of productive mischief, from detecting a solar burst to worming its…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 9 Aug 2014
Vintage ISEE-3 satellite makes long-awaited flyby on Sunday, Los Angeles Times “The lunar flyby will occur on Aug. 10 at 11:16 a.m. PDT, at which time members of ISEE-3 Reboot Project will…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 8 August 2014
Google helps ‘citizen scientist’ group recover data from abandoned NASA satellite, VentureBeat “There’s a tendency at NASA for scientists to sit on data collected, because they want to make sense of it…
Google Creative Lab and ISEE-3 Reboot Team Announce New Citizen Science Website
We are excited to let all of you know about the newly announced collaboration between the ISEE-3 Reboot Project and Google. The website is now live at http://www.spacecraftforall.com/. Some background on this…
Talking to ISEE-3 With GNU Radio
Free Software on the final frontier: GNU Radio controls the ISEE-3 Spacecraft “To do this, the group turned to GNU Radio, a free software toolkit for implementing software-defined radios and signal processing…