Unique Broadband Systems Ltd. has agreed to loan our project a 700 watt transmitter. This hardware normally lists for over $200,000.  Use of this equipment by the ISEE-3 Reboot Project marks a…

Crowdfunding the recovery of a lost spacecraft, Make: Magazine “The hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project have moved on to a different challenge. Not content with images, this time they…

Animation by Mike Loucks at Space Exploration Engineering

How to Resurrect a 35-Year-Old Spacecraft, Popular Mechanics “Wingo and Cowing started a RocketHub crowdfunding effort to raise $125,000 for the mission. They’ve also been hunting for the right parts to get…

Our friends at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Arecibo have detected signals from both of ISEE-3’s transmitters again on 14 April. Here are detailed plots of what they heard. More…

The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is currently working with NASA on a Space Act Agreement regarding contacting and commanding the ISEE-3 spacecraft. We hope to have the agreement signed very soon.

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We have had multiple folks ask if we have any received data telemetry tapes from ISEE-3 or the others in the series (ISEE-1 or ISEE-2). If anyone has any of these tapes…

Video: Top-down view of the orbit of ISEE-3 (ICE) relative to the inner solar system. We see the orbit alternates with the spacecraft occasionally closer, then further from the Sun than Earth….

Can This 1970s Spacecraft Explore Again?, io9 “Imagine the heartbroken wailing and the cries of denial. Insert the demands to find out just how much it would cost to rebuild the antennas…

Everyone But NASA Wants To Wake Up This Long-Dormant Spacecraft, Motherboard “Where organizations lose their interest–which is to say, funding–the crowd is there to step in. It’s true if there isn’t money…