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 offered suggestions on what might have happened, [we] decided to throw the problem out to the world. I was astonished at the response.”
The July 10 post on the ISEE-3 blog and NASA Watch (Cowing’s website) generated many suggestions, including some from “the most qualified professionals in the world,” Wingo said, while declining to name names due to privacy concerns.”
Crowdsourced Know-How May Put Salvaged ISEE-3 Spacecraft Back on Track, NBC
“After a series of setbacks, the decades-old ISEE-3 spacecraft revived by a team of experts may be getting back on track — following input from a global community of aerospace experts. Space College, the group that resurrected the International Sun-Earth Explorer probe, wrote in a blog post Tuesday that asking for help on the project resulted in a flood of input, some coming from “the most qualified professionals in the world … literally, the very top tier of experts.”
How Arecibo Observatory Transmits to the ISEE-3 Spacecraft, Planetary Society
“Since the ISEE-3 project required quick implementation at Arecibo, we opted for manual switching between transmitting and receiving. Thus, at least two people needed to be in the telescope dome for when we’d communicate with the spacecraft, and at least one person needed to be in the control room directing the turret to rotate. This entire ballet was complex, and orchestrated over phone lines.”