{"id":8357,"date":"2014-07-19T13:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2014-07-19T13:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:50:52","slug":"latest-from-the-isee-3-reboot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8357","title":{"rendered":"Latest from the ISEE-3 Reboot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an account of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project<\/a> in the NY Times:\u00a0Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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 \u2014 and by involving our donors directly in our work.<\/em><\/p>\n

NASA likes to say that \u201cspace is hard,\u201d but to make itself relevant to the people whose taxes fund it, it must get outside its comfort zone. To its credit, NASA saw the potential of our project to reach beyond the traditional audience. The interactions via social media with our supporters have borne this out. Imagine what feats of exploration might be possible if an empowered and engaged citizenry realized that exploring space is really something anyone can do.<\/em><\/p>\n

And here’s an update on the project:\u00a0ISEE-3 Status Report 18 July 2014 – Space College<\/a><\/p>\n

During our pass at Arecibo today we managed to get some propulsion out of thruster K. We’re looking at how this was accomplished with an eye toward repeating it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an account of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project in the NY Times:\u00a0Rebooting 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 \u2014 and by involving our donors directly in our work. … Continue reading Latest from the ISEE-3 Reboot Project<\/span> →<\/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":[35,31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-solar-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2aN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8058,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8058","url_meta":{"origin":8357,"position":0},"title":"ISEE-3 Reboot Project update","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0ISEE-3 Reboot Project\u00a0(see the recent\u00a0post\u00a0ISEE-3 Reboot Project takes command of the spacecraft) continues to make progress in the effort to resurrect and re-target NASA's\u00a0International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) spacecraft, launched in 1978 to study the earth's magnetosphere but re-targeted to study two comets. \u00a0the Reboot Project will try to return the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DIY space"","block_context":{"text":"DIY space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/CLPG15HXkv8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7969,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7969","url_meta":{"origin":8357,"position":1},"title":"ISEE-3 Reboot Project takes command of the spacecraft","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0ISEE-3 Reboot Project\u00a0(see earlier post)\u00a0is now talking with the spacecraft : We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions. 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