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.
Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project
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…
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
ISEE-3 Goes LEGO
“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…
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…
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
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…