Contact With 36-Year Old Spacecraft Results in Dancing, Hugs. Now Comes Even Bigger Challenge, Universe Today “The next task will be looking at the propulsion system and making sure they can actually…
Happy Dance Video: First Successful ISEE-3 Commanding
A Happy Dance for ISEE-3 First Contact, io9 “What happens when you successfully gain control of an abandoned spacecraft after decades? Disbelief, a happy dance, and hugs, of course. The unedited video…
ISEE-3 Mission Status 3 June 2014
Telemetry we have received from ISEE-3 shows that it is spinning at 19.16 rpm. The mission specification is 19.75 +/- 0.2 rpm. We have also learned that the spacecraft’s attitude relative to…
NASA/ISEE-3 Reboot Project Space Act Agreement
NONREIMBURSABLE SPACE ACT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, AMES RESEARCH CENTER AND SKYCORP, INC FOR ISEE-3 REBOOT PROJECT ARTICLE 1. AUTHORITY AND PARTIES In accordance with the National Aeronautics…
ISEE-3 In The News
Volunteers Take Command of Old NASA Craft, Which Might Crash into Moon, Space News “Using a custom-designed transmitter from Dirk Fischer Elektronik of Germany, the ISEE-3 Reboot Project led by blogger Keith…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Update: BULLSEYE! and More
Dennis Wingo: We have returned from our foray (probably not the last) at Arecibo. It was a wonderful trip, the people down there are marvelous, and Arecibo is the crown jewel of…
NASA Has Known The ISEE-3/ICE Return Date For Decades
Source: Space Explorer Changes Course – Probe Could Be Retrieved, UPI, Apr 9, 1986. Note: contrary to his prediction, this time Bob Farquhar was wrong: he is most certainly here – and…
How to Donate to ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Our inaugural crowdfunding activity at RocketHub has concluded. If you wish to make a donation, please mail a check made payable to “Skycorp” at this address (donations are not tax deductible at…
ISEE-3 Mission Control
Mission Control for the ISEE-3 Reboot Project is located in Building 596 at NASA Ames Research Park adjacent to NASA Ames Research Center and Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley….
NASA Statement: Citizen Scientists Successfully Communicate with Spacecraft
A group of citizen scientists has successfully established communication with an inactive NASA spacecraft in an attempt to breathe new scientific life into a more than 35-year-old agency mission. NASA signed a…
ISEE-3 In The News
After Decades Of Silent Wandering, NASA Probe Phones Home, NPR “The initial contact was a tone followed by specific commands,” project organizer Keith Cowing told NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce by email. “We learned…
Confirmation That ISEE-3 Is Transmitting Telemetry
Achim Vollhardt did a quick simulation of the expected signal spectrum and made an overlay with the spectrum observed from the ISEE-3 spacecraft. As you can see the prediction matches reality almost…