International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3)

a.k.a. International Cometary Explorer (ICE)

Some information on the return of ISEE-3/ICE in 2014

• Rockethub crowd funding site for LOIRP's ISEE-3 Reboot Project has exceeded its funding goal.
  This is the same group recently featured in Wired magazine for their Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
• The ISEE-3 Archives at Space College has up-to-date news about the ISEE-3 Reboot Project
• Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft
  (by Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2014)
• Fundraisers Expect Green Light from NASA To Recover '70s-Vintage Spacecraft
  (by Dan Leone 14.05.14)
• No turning back, NASA ISEE-3 Spacecraft Returning to Earth after a 36 Year Journey
  (written by Tim Reyes on 13 May, 2014)
• ICE/ISEE-3 update: Amateurs detect its signal while professionals study contacting it
  (Posted by Emily Lakdawalla 20.03.14)
• NPR story about Robert Farquhar who "stole" ISEE to visit comets
  (by Nell Greenfieldboyce 18.03.14)
• ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth no longer capable of speaking to it, Planetary Society
  (by Emily Lakdawalla (07.02.14)
• ISEE-3 Returns facebook page
• ISEE-3 even appeared in an xkcd comic

Mission Description at the NASA/NSSDC ISEE-3 page

Issues of the ISEE / ICE / IMP Newsletter from 1992-1994

ISEE-3/SWIC
Solar Wind Ion Composition

• Instrument Information
• Collaborators
• Data Sets

Map of ISEE-3 Trajectory

NASA/NSSDC ISEE Project Site

Online Data from NDSSC

• ISEE-3 List of Available Data

Contact: Fred Ipavich

---

ice.html last modified on 5/24/14 at 4:15 PM by sel