Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project

Private Team Reaches Crowdfunding Goal To Reboot 36-Year-Old NASA Probe, space.com “A private team is preparing to make contact with a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft after reaching its $125,000 crowdfunding goal on Wednesday…

Now that we’ve passed our initial goal of $125,000, we have asked for an extension to our crowd funding effort – a “stretch goal” of $150,000. As we developed the software, hardware,…

Dennis Wingo: Today’s update regards the progress of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team in our preparations to contact the spacecraft. We started this effort 32 days ago on on April 12, 2014….

At the ISEE-3 Reboot Project our plan is simple: we intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engines and enter an orbit near Earth, and…

Animation by Mike Loucks at Space Exploration Engineering

Fundraisers Expect Green Light from NASA To Recover 70’s-Vintage Spacecraft”, Space News “A pair of space geeks quarterbacking an effort to bring a derelict NASA spacecraft back into orbit around Earth expect…

USRP N210 units delivered to ISEE-3 Mission Control today. “The USRP N210 provides high-bandwidth, high-dynamic range processing capability. The USRP N210 is intended for demanding communications applications requiring this type of rapid…

“ISEE-3 was a spacecraft launched in 1978 which originally examined the solar wind and plasma environments around the edges of the Earth-Moon system. In the Early 80’s some fancy orbital mechanics and…

Dennis Wingo: : The ISEE-3 Reboot project is an effort to contact, evaluate, command, and place back into  operation in an Earth orbit the International Sun-Earth Explorer #3 (ISEE-3) spacecraft. In 1978…

Private Team Wants to Bring 36-Year-Old NASA Probe Out of Retirement, Space.com “The golden years may be about to end for a 1970s-era NASA spacecraft. A crowdfunded team of engineers, programmers and…

Dennis Wingo: Today is May 1, 2014, the 17th day after we started our RocketHub project to raise $125,000 to allow us to attempt to contact, evaluate, and command the International Sun-Earth…

To Save A Satellite, Former NASA Guy Takes Crowdfunding To Space, NPR (audio and transcript) “Keith Cowing discusses his campaign to save an old 1970s NASA spacecraft from becoming space junk. ISEE-3/ICE…