ISEE-3 Reboot Project Reaches 50% of Goal
To Save A Satellite, Former NASA Guy Takes Crowdfunding To Space, NPR All Things Considered story
“ISEE-3/ICE is a satellite that was once used to monitor space weather, but it’s been unused for decades. NASA doesn’t want to spend the money to bring it back to life, but Cowing and his colleagues are determined to do it. If they can raise $125,000 on a crowdfunding site called RocketHub, Cowing says they’ll contact ISEE-3/ICE, wake it up and put it back to good use.”
Keith’s update: We have reached 50% of our goal $62,500. This is the result of 1,032 donors – the vast majority of whom donated between $10 and $50. Our PR has been almost exclusively non-space media. I think this speaks to an interest in space that is outside the usual areas/groups that everyone seems to focus on. Visit the crowdfunding site at Rockethub to help push toward 100%.
good luck team, I’m in for $50
Thanks!
Double thanks!
I heard Keith on NPR last night- nice!!
My hat is off to you, Keith & Dennis. The steady stream of reporting on the project has been most impressive. You two have some serious publicity skills!
I have a copy of a report on the ISEE-3 (ISEE-C) solar X-ray spectrometer that details at least some aspects of the science and housekeeping telemetry formats for this instrument as of 07 June 1977 – if I were to provide scans of this document, to whom could I send them?