Keith’s note: Below is an email from Todd Kramer. His father Richard Kramer died recently. Richard Kramer had a long career in the space business and worked on the ISEE-3 […]
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Spitzer Space Telescope May Be Up For Grabs (Update)
NASA might turn over management of the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of the Great Observatories, to private operator. https://t.co/tCXmQyJHjf pic.twitter.com/p8aMdrzwgB — Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) July 22, 2017 At @NASA, we […]
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ISEE-3 Is In Safe Mode
ISEE-3 Is In Safe Mode “The ground stations listening to ISEE-3 have not been able to obtain a signal since Tuesday the 16th. Arecibo, Morehead, Bochum, SETI, as well as […]
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NASA Lists ISEE-3 Reboot as 2nd Largest Crowdfunded Space Effort
Emerging Space: The Evolving Landscape of 21st Century American Spaceflight, PDF, NASA Office of the Chief Technologist “Crowdfunding offers space organizations avenues for fundraising outside traditional institutional methods. Sites like […]
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Crowdfunding in Space
Space Crowdfunding: What’s the Secret?, Winners and losers among the space start-ups, Air and Space “I had guys clambering over the [radio antenna] dish in Arecibo [Puerto Rico], hanging hardware […]
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ISEE-3 Update
Civilians steer NASA satellite from an old McDonald’s, Cnet “I hadn’t been aware that, if you ask NASA nicely, you’ll be allowed to take the controls of a satellite floating […]
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Google Hangout: A Spacecraft for All: The Live ISEE-3 Lunar Flyby
Join the hangout live as the ISEE-3 spacecraft makes it’s long-awaited lunar flyby after 36 years in interplanetary space. Flip between the 3D realtime trajectory and the live video program. […]
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Google and ISEE-3 Reboot Team Join Forces
Google Creative Lab and ISEE-3 Reboot Team Announce New Citizen Science Website “We are excited to let all of you know about the newly announced collaboration between the ISEE-3 Reboot […]
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ISEE-3 Is Doing Science Again
ISEE-3 Science Status Report 7 August 2014 “As promised, the time of closest approach to the Moon is 18:16 UTC (on Sunday, 10 August). Vassilis Angelopolous at UCLA is now […]
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ISEE-3: Next Steps
Announcing the ISEE-3 Interplanetary Citizen Science Mission “After a successful reawakening the venerable ISEE-3 spacecraft is about to begin the first interplanetary citizen science mission. We will be beginning the […]