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 […]
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Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All
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 […]
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ISEE-3 Is In Borg Mode
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, […]
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Deep Space Crowd Sourced Plumbing Repair
Distributed Rocket Science is a Thing Now, io9 “Less than two hours after sending out a distress signal for help, engineers who worked on exactly these types of propulsion systems […]
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ISEE-3 Reboot Project Seeks Your Technical Help
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 […]
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ISEE-3 Update
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 […]
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Jump Starting ISEE-3
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 […]
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ISEE-3 Trajectory Correction Maneuver
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 […]
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ISEE-3 Engines Fired (Update)
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 […]
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ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer Update
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 […]