Dennis Wingo gives an update on the ISEE-3 reboot satellite project, including what it accomplished and what they hope to do next : ISEE-3 Post Lunar Flyby Status and Modification of Mission Goals – denniswingo Mission Status Communication with the ISEE-3 satellite was successfully re-established with the goal of commanding the satellite to change its trajectory with the … Continue reading ISEE-3 project update and plans→
Don’t forget that the ISEE-3 Reboot Project will be hosting a livecast today of the lunar fly-by starting at 10:30 am PDT (1:30 am EDT) . The event will be webcast from McMoon’s at NASA’s Ames Research Center. (See earlier posting.) In the meantime, check out the interactive SpacecraftForAll.com site created by Google to illustrate the of the ISEE-3 spacecraft’s history and its route through … Continue reading ISEE-3 lunar fly-by livecast today→
Google is teaming with the ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Google’s paired up with the team behind the first ever crowd-funded citizen space mission to launch SpacecraftForAll.com an interactive, multimedia resource for citizen scientists and space fanatics to access all the data collected by the ISEE-3 spacecraft. The SpacecraftForAll site, tuned for the Google Chrome browser, is a Chrome Experiment from … Continue reading ISEE-3: Livecast of lunar fly-by on Aug.10 + New Google interactive site→
Since my last post on the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, the team determined that it was impossible to restart the propulsion system due to the absence of the nitrogen pressurant gas needed to force fuel into the thrusters. They spacecraft therefore cannot be put into an orbit in the Earth-Moon system and will instead continue on its orbit around the … Continue reading ISEE-3 citizen science mission→