I wrote a post back in April about the private effort to reconnect with the 36 year old International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE) spacecraft and direct it back to its original solar science mission. The crowd-funding campaign to raise $125,000 to get the project underway has been a success:
- ISEE-3 Reboot Project crowdfunding campaign RocketHub
- ISEE-3 Reboot Project Passes Funding Goal – Space College
Here’s an update from Dennis Wingo: ISEE-3 Reboot Project Status and Schedule for First Contact – Space College.
And here is a video report on the project:
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The Israeli based SpaceIL team in the GLXP has opened a crowdfunding campaign as well: Join SpaceIL’s Mission to Land the First Israeli Spacecraft on the Moon! – Indiegogo.
After just 2 days they have raised $41k towards their $240k goal.
In April the Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson gave the project $16.4M: Israel space project gets $16 million boost from casino mogul Adelson | Reuters
However, they still need to raise a considerable amount of money to cover the launch and the mission operations.
Here is a new video about the project: