Dennis Wingo: We are Now Living in a Science Fiction World. In the science fiction universe of Star Trek, set several hundred years in the future, when we are a spacefaring civilization,…
Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project
ISEE-3 Status Report 15 July 2014
Our next window at Arecibo is tomorrow (Wednesday) between 12:19 pm and 3:03 pm ET. During that opportunity we intend to attempt a deep space plumbing repair on board ISEE-3 and then…
Photos: An Insider's Look at ISEE-3 – Volume 2
“I have been following your effort to revive ISSE-3 with great interest since I worked on this project as an employee of Fairchild Space Company. Attached is a picture of the satellite…
ISEE-3 Telemetry and Location Update 13 July 2014
#ISEE3 (ICE) now at 0.984 AU from the Sun, 4.25 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/nFtEQAwS4k — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 14, 2014 #ISEE3 Added live JPL Horizons data to the @ISEE3Reboot…
Photos: An Insider's Look at ISEE-3 – Volume 1
These images were provided by Todd Kramer. His father, Richard Kramer, worked on the ISEE-3 project and took these pictures. These photos show the final assembly and testing at NASA GSFC in…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
Distributed Rocket Science is a Thing Now, io9 Less than two hours after sending out a distress signal for help, engineers who worked on exactly these types of propulsion systems emerged from…
Software Defined Radio and ISEE-3
The ISEE-3 Reboot Mission: a dream SDR application, Balint Seeber, Ettus Research “Upon arriving at Arecibo, I knew I was in the right place when I walked outside the rear of the…
ISEE-3 Status Report 10 July 2014
We spent all day yesterday with space propulsion experts. We have identified a series of options including hydrazine tank heating and a long series of pulse attempts to (possibly) clear the lines….
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Seeks Your Help To Solve a Technical Problem
We have a crowdsourced research project for our ISEE-3 Reboot fans. One of our volunteers, Karl-Max Wagner from Germany has an interesting idea. Did the Nitrogen pressurizing gas dissolve in the Hydrazine…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
Space Probe Might Lack Nitrogen to Push It Home, NY Times Even though they might not be able to capture the spacecraft, Mr. Cowing said they were devising an alternative in which…
ISEE-3 Status Report 9 July 2014 (afternoon)
Our troubleshooting today eliminated some suspected causes of propulsion system problems. We do not think any of the valves are malfuctioning. Right now we think there is a chance that the Nitrogen…
ISEE-3 Current Location 21 June 2014
#ISEE3 just dropped to less than 5M km from Earth and only 33 seconds round trip comm time. pic.twitter.com/crMsVMevpl — USA Satcom (@usa_satcom) July 9, 2014 #ISEE3 now at 0.980 AU from…