There’s an account of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project in the NY Times: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All – NYTimes.com Government space missions are expensive. New private-sector space ventures always seem to involve billionaires. Yet we achieved results by raising funds a few dollars at a time — and by involving our donors directly in our work. … Continue reading Latest from the ISEE-3 Reboot Project →

I posted earlier that the reports that the ISEE-3 Reboot Project had given up on restarting the propulsion system were premature. Project member Dennis Wingo gives a detailed account of the crowd-sourced investigation into what is going on with the thrusters and into possible solutions to the failure to get substantial thrust from them: We Are Borg: Crowdsourced ISEE-3 Engineering and the Collective Mind … Continue reading ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Update on thruster debugging with crowd-sourced expertise →

The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see posts here, here, and here) appeared to suffer a serious and irreversible setback this week when they were unable to fire the propulsion system to change the spacecraft’s trajectory. While hydrazine fuel still remained in the tank, there did not appear to be any nitrogen to push the fuel into the engine … Continue reading ISEE-3 Reboot Project investigating possible solution to propulsion failure →