Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project

@ISEE3Reboot watching the drama unfold! Thank you for the live updates! @DutchManPaul @amsatdl pic.twitter.com/m2ootVuUX5 — Geoffrey Phillips (@GeoffreyKP) July 9, 2014 Just sshed into a satellite, no big deal #ISEE3 pic.twitter.com/zvS6Hb0C6V —…

Mike Loucks @Astrogator_Mike Symmetry baby! Outbound #ISEE3 trajectory (blue) from 1983 and Incoming (green) in 2014. Earth-Sun rotating frame.

These charts represent data recorded during our Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM) thruster firings yesterday. Thruster firings were planned to done in groupings – or “segments” – of 63 firings per segment. The…

NASA’s Zombie Spacecraft Learns to Fire Its Engines, The Atlantic “The quest to save the ISEE-3–a long-lost NASA probe launched in the disco era and abandoned in the dot-com boom–might just succeed….

We managed to conduct the first segment (composed of 63 thruster pulses) but encountered problems with the second and halted the remainder of segment firings. Today’s burn was supposed to be 7.32987…

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As many of you know, last week we fired the thrusters on ISEE-3 to do a spin-up burn. Before the burn (actually 11 pulses on the spacecraft’s hydrazine thrusters) the spin rate…

ISEE-3 Project Team Announces the Space Probes Engines are Fired Up, CrowdFund Insider “Just a little over a month since the closing of their crowdfunding campaign on RocketHub campaign to the close,…

Source: JPL HORIZONSEphemeris Type: OBSERVERTarget Body: ICE Spacecraft (ISEE-3)Observer Location: Geocentric [500]Time Span : Start=2014-07-04, Stop=2014-08-03, Step=1 dTable Settings: defaultsObject Data Page UPDATE (2014-Jul-03): Trajectory update from ISEE-3 Reboot based on Arecibo…

ISEE-3 Propulsion System Awakens at 11th Hour, Space News “If ISEE-3 makes it back to Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1, Cowing and Wingo plan to command the spacecraft from mission control McMoons: an…

Further confirmation of the ISEE-3 spin-up burn yesterday. Before the burn (actually 11 pulses on the spacecraft’s hydrazine thrusters) the spin rate of ISEE-3 was 19.16 rpm. After spin-up burn it was…

#ISEE3 now at 0.974 AU from the Sun, 6.28 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/9DjPaUoVh3 — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 3, 2014