ISEE-3

Lost and Found in Space: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All, op ed, Keith Cowing, New York Times “NASA likes to say that “space is hard,” but to make itself relevant […]

We Are Borg: Crowdsourced ISEE-3 Engineering and the Collective Mind of the Internet, Dennis Wingo “In the science fiction universe of Star Trek, set several hundred years in the future, […]

ISEE-3 Reboot Project Seeks Your Help To Solve a Technical Problem “We have a crowdsourced research project for our ISEE-3 Reboot fans. One of our volunteers, Karl-Max Wagner from Germany […]

ISEE-3 Status Report 9 July 2014 (afternoon) “Our troubleshooting today eliminated some suspected causes of propulsion system problems. We do not think any of the valves are malfuctioning. Right now […]

In Effort to Shift Abandoned NASA Craft, a Hiccup (or Burp), New York Times “The first part of the maneuver succeeded, a milestone in an effort to resurrect a zombie […]

ISEE-3 Status Report 7 July 2014 (evening) “If all goes according to plan on Tuesday, 8 July, we will conduct the Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM). This will require a much […]

Keith’s 2 July note: We just fired the engines on ISEE-3 to perform a spin-up burn. Preliminary results confirm the burn and a change in rotation. The spin rate was […]

Notes on the ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer From the Original Principal Investigator “Ed Smith, Original Original Principal Investigator on ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer: The effort to recapture the ISEE-/ ICE […]

Keith’s note: We were able to use the B transmitter today for the first time but were unable to complete the various steps needed to command ISEE-3 to fire its […]

Keith’s 26 June Update: Just as our DSN window closed today we were able to get 2 way Doppler lock and ranging at a 47.5 kHz offset.  DSN got the […]