#ISEE3 (ICE) now at 0.994 AU from the Sun, 2.46 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/tPHk5dVk7p — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 24, 2014
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
The 1970s Spacecraft Is Doing Science Again!, io9 “The citizen science team wanted to execute burns to drop the craft back in its 1978 orbit, but the spacecraft disagreed. The original hope…
Announcing the ISEE-3 Interplanetary Citizen Science Mission
After a successful reawakening the venerable ISEE-3 spacecraft is about to begin the first interplanetary citizen science mission. In April 2014 our team set about bringing the 36 year old ISEE-3 (International…
ISEE-3 Status Report 23 July 2014
We had a session with ISEE-3 today via Arecibo with support from AMSAT-DL/Bochum team in Germany. We engaged in “hammer mode” wherein we tried to open and close all of the latch…
Planetary Radio Segment on ISEE-3
Keith Cowing and the Outrageous ISEE-3 Rebooters , Planetary Radio “They have generated excitement, enthusiasm and support throughout the world. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project has succeeded in gaining control over the 36-year…
ISEE-3 Current Location 22 July 2014
#ISEE3 (ICE) now at 0.992 AU from the Sun, 2.865 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/nbVwkHTaGI — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 22, 2014
ISEE-3 Current Location 21 July 2014
#ISEE3 (ICE) now at 0.991 AU from the Sun, 3.04 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/7HGPOOT8yG — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 21, 2014
Education and Public Outreach: Lunar Orbiter and ISEE-3
This poster presentation by Keith Cowing and Dennis Wingo was produced for the NASA SSERVI Exploration Science Forum 21-23 July 2014. Click on image for full poster (PDF) Introduction Any space mission…
ISEE-3 In The New York Times
Lost and Found in Space: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All, op ed, Keith Cowing, New York Times “NASA likes to say that “space is hard,” but to make itself relevant to the…
ISEE-3 In The News
Vintage NASA Probe, Once Abandoned in Space, Still Has Fuel, Space.com “After refusing to fire its engines last week for a course correction, a vintage NASA spacecraft did produce a bit of…
ISEE-3 Status Report 18 July 2014
During our pass at Arecibo today we managed to get some propulsion out of thruster K. We’re looking at how this was accomplished with an eye toward repeating it. We expect to…
ISEE-3 Status 17 July 2014
Our window with Arecibo opens tomorrow (Friday) at 12:13 pm ET. We will continue with our plumbing and electrical testing and see if we can get the propulsion system operating again. #ISEE3…