Fundraisers Expect Green Light from NASA To Recover 70’s-Vintage Spacecraft”, Space News “A pair of space geeks quarterbacking an effort to bring a derelict NASA spacecraft back into orbit around Earth expect…

USRP N210 units delivered to ISEE-3 Mission Control today. “The USRP N210 provides high-bandwidth, high-dynamic range processing capability. The USRP N210 is intended for demanding communications applications requiring this type of rapid…

“ISEE-3 was a spacecraft launched in 1978 which originally examined the solar wind and plasma environments around the edges of the Earth-Moon system. In the Early 80’s some fancy orbital mechanics and…

Dennis Wingo: : The ISEE-3 Reboot project is an effort to contact, evaluate, command, and place back into  operation in an Earth orbit the International Sun-Earth Explorer #3 (ISEE-3) spacecraft. In 1978…

Private Team Wants to Bring 36-Year-Old NASA Probe Out of Retirement, Space.com “The golden years may be about to end for a 1970s-era NASA spacecraft. A crowdfunded team of engineers, programmers and…

Dennis Wingo: Today is May 1, 2014, the 17th day after we started our RocketHub project to raise $125,000 to allow us to attempt to contact, evaluate, and command the International Sun-Earth…

To Save A Satellite, Former NASA Guy Takes Crowdfunding To Space, NPR (audio and transcript) “Keith Cowing discusses his campaign to save an old 1970s NASA spacecraft from becoming space junk. ISEE-3/ICE…

Crowdfunding push to bring 36-year old spacecraft out of retirement, Gizmag “Putting classic cars on the road or classic boats on the water isn’t that odd, but what about putting a classic…

ISEE-3 Dream Team Needs Your Help, Hack a Day “The mission to save ISEE-3 has is underway. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project has posted a crowdfunding campaign on Rockethub. When we first covered…

These 2 guys are trying to salvage a 35-year-old spacecraft … and you can help, Blastr “The International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 probe was originally launched in 1978, and in the decades since…

Group Wants To Recover 36-Year-Old Historic Spacecraft From Deep Space, Slashdot “A band of space hackers and engineers are trying to do something never done before — recover a 36 year old…

Crowdfunding project aims to bring a forgotten space probe back to life, Engadget “Good news is, the team is led by Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing, who have some serious credentials under…