We hope to have the 64 meter dish at Usuda in Japan do some ISEE-3 data recording today/tomorrow as the solar storm arrives.
Month: September 2014
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 11 Sep 2014
Citizen Scientists Command NASA Satellite, VOA “For the first time, NASA, the U.S. space agency, has handed over the reins of one its spacecraft to a group of ordinary people. The International…
29 Years Ago Today: ISEE-3 Makes The First Comet Encounter
On 11 September 1985 ISEE-3 flew through the plasma trail of Comet Giacobini-Zinner and became the first spacecraft to encounter a comet. Photo: Kitt Peak, 1998.
Successful Space Project Crowdfunding
Space Crowdfunding: What’s the Secret?, Winners and losers among the space start-ups, Air and Space “I had guys clambering over the [radio antenna] dish in Arecibo [Puerto Rico], hanging hardware while people…
Please Help Preserve This Historic Astronomical Data
Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery “Digitizing the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full sky will foster new scientific discoveries for the currently ‘hot’ field of studying variability…
ISEE-3 Status Report 5 September 2014
On September 4 we attempted to contact ISEE-3 from the Morehead State University dish. Our plan was to switch antennas and to change antenna orientation. We were unable to make contact with…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News 3 Sep 2014
The sun and McMoon’s – Citizen group commandeers retired NASA satellite, Mountain View Voice “The scrappy bunch of students, entrepreneurs and former NASA scientists who work out of “McMoon’s” — an abandoned…
ISEE-3 Does GOGOBOT
#ISEE3 featured on the flyer of Enschede’s @GOGBOT festival. #awesome pic.twitter.com/RKekjB7U36 — Bram de Vries (@blaet) September 1, 2014