We have a crowdsourced research project for our ISEE-3 Reboot fans. One of our volunteers, Karl-Max Wagner from Germany has an interesting idea. Did the Nitrogen pressurizing gas dissolve in the Hydrazine…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
Space Probe Might Lack Nitrogen to Push It Home, NY Times Even though they might not be able to capture the spacecraft, Mr. Cowing said they were devising an alternative in which…
ISEE-3 Status Report 9 July 2014 (afternoon)
Our troubleshooting today eliminated some suspected causes of propulsion system problems. We do not think any of the valves are malfuctioning. Right now we think there is a chance that the Nitrogen…
ISEE-3 Current Location 21 June 2014
#ISEE3 just dropped to less than 5M km from Earth and only 33 seconds round trip comm time. pic.twitter.com/crMsVMevpl — USA Satcom (@usa_satcom) July 9, 2014 #ISEE3 now at 0.980 AU from…
Worldwide Audience for ISEE-3 TCM Burn
@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 —…
Celestial Symmetry As ISEE-3 Departs and Returns
Mike Loucks @Astrogator_Mike Symmetry baby! Outbound #ISEE3 trajectory (blue) from 1983 and Incoming (green) in 2014. Earth-Sun rotating frame.
ISEE-3 Trajectory Correction Maneuver Data
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…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project In The News
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….
ISEE-3 Status Report 8 July 2014 (evening)
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…
ISEE-3 Mission Control Overview
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ISEE-3 Status Report 7 July 2014 (evening)
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 Reboot Project In The News
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,…