First time ever in recorded history whereby a group of crowdfunding organisers after successfully raising approximately ~ US$$159,602 for the purpose of taking the opportunity to conduct additional astronomical scientific research specially with a goal involving an attempt at yet another cometary rendezvous, managed to gain command of a defunct satellite known as the ESA (formally identified as ESRO) / NASA International Sun & Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) / International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft that was launched on the 12th of August 1978 into a halo orbit at the L1 Lagrangian Point (also by itself a remarkable achievement at that period of time) and which was shut down on the 5th of May 1997.
YouTube Video ID No. ATVPGGA7BQ
RocketHub, Inc., ISEE-3 Reboot Project
By Skycorp, Space College and SpaceRef
Space College Foundation, Inc., We Are Now In Command Of The ISEE-3 Spacecraft
By Keith Cowing @ 2014-05-29 T 16:07
[video=youtube;_AtVPGgA7BQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtVPGgA7BQ[/video]Space College Foundation said:...
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. Over the coming days and weeks our team will make an assessment of the spacecraft's overall health and refine the techniques required to fire its engines and bring it back to an orbit near Earth.
First Contact with ISEE-3 was achieved at the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico. We would not have been able to achieve this effort without the gracious assistance provided by the entire staff at Arecibo. In addition to the staff at Arecibo, our team included simultaneous listening and analysis support by AMSAT-DL at the Bochum Observatory in Germany, the Space Science Center at Morehead State University in Kentucky, and the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California.
Of course this effort would not have been possible without the assistance of NASA and the Space Act Agreement crafted by NASA Headquarters, NASA Ames Research center, and the System Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
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YouTube Video ID No. ATVPGGA7BQ
RocketHub, Inc., ISEE-3 Reboot Project
By Skycorp, Space College and SpaceRef
Space College Foundation, Inc., We Are Now In Command Of The ISEE-3 Spacecraft
By Keith Cowing @ 2014-05-29 T 16:07
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