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ISEE-3

Jump Starting ISEE-3

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 8, 2014
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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 spacecraft that NASA abandoned 17 years ago. But then — perhaps to be expected during work on a jalopy — problems cropped up, and the thrusters failed to fire properly. Another attempt to complete the course correction will be made Wednesday. “I feel like it is taunting us sometimes,” Keith Cowing, one of the leaders of the effort, said of the 36-year-old spacecraft, the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3, or ISEE-3. It is not NASA commanding the spacecraft now, but a group of civilians working in a former McDonald’s in California taking advantage of technological goodies of the 21st century, including Skype, Twitter, laptop computers and crowdsourcing.”
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