From Pat Barthelow on Facebook: (translation): Hey Folks! Just heard from my Moonbounce friends (Jan, PA3FXB and team) in Dwingeloo Holland (PI9CAM) who have a 25 meter Moonbounce dish, that they are…
Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Notes on the ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer From the Original Principal Investigator
Ed Smith, Original Original Principal Investigator on ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer: The effort to recapture the ISEE-/ ICE spacecraft has just achieved a notable scientific success. Data recovered from the spacecraft very…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Mission Control Team
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project mission control team for today’s engine firing: From left to right: Austin Epps – Lead Engineer, Jacob Gold – Systems Engineer; Cameron Woodman – Flight Director; Dennis Wingo…
ISEE-3 Engines Successfully Fired For Spin-Up
Today we fired the A and B thrusters on ISEE-3 to perform a spin-up burn. Preliminary results confirm the burn and a change in rotation. Spin rate was originally 19.16 rpm. It…
ISEE-3 Location Update 2 July 2014
#ISEE3 now at 0.973 AU from the Sun, 6.47 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/Xi686J0GxD — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 2, 2014
ISEE-3 Status Report 1 July 2014 (Update)
We have a window at Arecibo that opens today around 1:00 pm EDT. If all goes according to plan we will attempt to do our spin-up burn today. Once we have reliable…
Screengrab: Observing Session at Morehead State during Second ISEE-3 DSN Pass
This is a screen grab taken at Morehead State University during our second DSN pass with ISEE-3 on 27 June. Morehead was observing the session and recording data. If you look at…
Video: Communicating with a Space Probe using Software Defined Radio
Presentation at DorkBotSF on 24 June 2014 by Balint Seeber, Austin Epps, and John Malsbury.
ISEE-3 Status 27 June 2014: Another DSN Ranging Success
We had an even greater DSN pass today with ISEE-3. We managed to get ~30 minutes of data (11 range points) after achieving 2 way Doppler lock and ranging at a 47.5…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
A Retired Satellite Gets Back To Work, Here & Now (NPR) “After 31 years in space, ISEE-3 is finally coming home. The International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 was a humble satellite launched in…
ISEE-3 Status 26 June 2014: DSN Ranging Success
Just as our DSN window closed today we were able to get 2 way Doppler lock and ranging at 47.5 kHz offset. Â DSN got the four ranging points needed from ISEE-3. This…
Tools Used in Tracking ISEE-3
#ISEE3 now at 0.97 AU from the Sun, 7.76 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/TcA2lglmHo — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) June 26, 2014 ADS helps reboot #ISEE3 with ODTK and STK Astrogator: http://t.co/f6X71STjAH…