{"id":7807,"date":"2014-05-15T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2014-05-15T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:12:19","slug":"isse-3-reboot-project-raises-125k-spaceil-crowd-funding-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7807","title":{"rendered":"ISSE-3 Reboot Project raises $125k + SpaceIL crowd-funding campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7537\" target=\"_d\">wrote a post \u00a0back in April<\/a>\u00a0about the private effort to<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0reconnect with the 36 year old\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #660000;\" href=\"http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/missions\/profile.cfm?MCode=ISEEICE\" target=\"_d\">International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE)<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0spacecraft 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:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockethub.com\/42228\" target=\"_d\">ISEE-3 Reboot Project crowdfunding campaign RocketHub<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacecollege.org\/isee3\/isee-3-reboot-project-passes-funding-goal.html\" target=\"_d\">ISEE-3 Reboot Project Passes Funding Goal &#8211; Space College<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an update from Dennis Wingo:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacecollege.org\/isee3\/isee-3-reboot-project-status-and-schedule-for-first-contact.html\" target=\"_d\">ISEE-3 Reboot Project Status and Schedule for First Contact &#8211; Space College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a video report on the project:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4D6pRT04PY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceil.com\/en\/\" target=\"_d\">SpaceIL<\/a>\u00a0team in the GLXP has opened a crowdfunding campaign as well:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/join-spaceil-s-mission-to-land-the-first-israeli-spacecraft-on-the-moon\" target=\"_d\">Join SpaceIL&#8217;s Mission to Land the First Israeli Spacecraft on the Moon! &#8211; Indiegogo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After just 2 days they have raised $41k towards their $240k goal.<\/p>\n<p>In April the Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson gave the project $16.4M:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/04\/09\/us-israel-space-adelson-idUSBREA381FH20140409\" target=\"_d\">Israel space project gets $16 million boost from casino mogul Adelson | Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, they still need to raise a considerable amount of money to cover the launch and the mission operations.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a new video about the project:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMd3Lx0Ox8M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a post \u00a0back in April\u00a0about the private effort to\u00a0reconnect with the 36 year old\u00a0International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE)\u00a0spacecraft 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISSE-3 Reboot Project raises $125k + SpaceIL crowd-funding campaign<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-space-participation","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-21V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7537,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7537","url_meta":{"origin":7807,"position":0},"title":"ISEE-3 Reboot Project &#8211; Help restart a sun-earth explorer","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've written about an effort to reconnect with the 36 year old\u00a0International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE)\u00a0spacecraft and direct it back to its original solar science mission: Reawakening and returning a 36 year old spacecraft to its original mission ICE\/ISEE-3 spacecraft signals picked up by amateur space radio buffs Dennis Wingo (Skycorp)\u00a0gives\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/TJw3XsmJIUs\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7886,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7886","url_meta":{"origin":7807,"position":1},"title":"NASA green-lights citizen science group&#8217;s effort to contact &#038; redirect ISEE-3 spacecraft","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've written about the\u00a0ISEE-3 Reboot Project\u00a0effort by a private non-profit group to reconnect with NASA's\u00a035\u00a0year old International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE)\u00a0spacecraft and direct it back to its original solar science mission. 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