Space.com: To Restart Vintage NASA Probe, Private Team Turns to the ‘Borg “No one on our team is an experienced hydrazine expert,” he said. “After receiving a few e-mails from people who…
ISEE-3 Status Report 16 July 2014
During our interaction with ISEE-3 today we tried a variety of valve and thruster selections using both sides of the propulsion system combined with tank and fuel line heating. Although we met…
ISEE-3 Current Location 15 July 2014
#ISEE3 (ICE) now at 0.986 AU from the Sun, 3.88 million km from the Earth. pic.twitter.com/JD1AJFpQZO — Mike Loucks (@Astrogator_Mike) July 16, 2014
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
Space Dream Revived in an Abandoned McDonald’s, Bloomberg View “Can a group of citizen scientists working out of an abandoned California McDonald’s re-energize U.S. space exploration? Thirty years ago, that question would…
We Are Borg: Crowdsourced ISEE-3 Engineering and the Collective Mind of the Internet
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,…
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….