Some Old Spacecraft Never Die
NASA’s ISEE-3/ICE Spacecraft Is Still Operating After 30 Years in Space
Editor’s note: I just got this note from Robert Farquhar: “At 2049 UTC on September 18, 2008, DSS-14 locked onto the carrier signal of the ISEE-3/ICE spacecraft. The remainder of the 3-hour track was then used to gather Doppler data for future use…
… Old spacecraft never die, and so far the former Flight Director has not expired either. Let’s return ISEE-3/ICE to the halo orbit, and go on to another comet!”
