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…
Please Help Preserve This Historic Astronomical Data
Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery “Digitizing the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full sky will foster new scientific discoveries for the currently ‘hot’ field of studying variability…
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…
Earth Science Challenges and Crowdsourcing From NASA
NASA Picks Top Earth Data Challenge Ideas, Opens Call for Climate Apps “NASA has selected four ideas from the public for innovative uses of climate projections and Earth-observing satellite data. The agency…
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy, Hannah E. Harris, Pedro Russo “Public engagement (PE) initiatives can lead to a long term public support of science. However most of the…
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
Citizen Science and Interstellar Dust
Mysteries of Space Dust Revealed “With the help of a distributed science project called Stardust@home, volunteer space enthusiasts from around the world combed through the video, flagging tracks they believed were created…