Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project

Source: University of Iowa, NASA

“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…

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…

(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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…