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Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 06/24/2014 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.rockethub.com] Nasa has agreed to let a group of enthusiasts attempt to communicate with a 36-year-old spacecraft as it flies past Earth in August. The International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE3) spacecraft was launched in 1978 in order to study the solar wind. It finished its primary mission in 1981 and was then redirected to study two comets, which it did successfully. After that, though, Nasa was finished and the spacecraft was left to drift around the Sun and fill its time in whatever way it saw fit. The mission was eventually shut down in 1997. But in 2008 the international Deep Space Network managed to make contact with the craft and found it was still in working order. Now, it's back. The spacecraft is set to make its closest approach to Earth in years in August, and a group of enthusiasts has been campaigning for Nasa to let it communicate with the craft - and potentially send it on a new mission. [link to www.huffingtonpost.co.uk] Chugiakian |
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