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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Private Team's Attempt to Move Vintage NASA Probe Hits Snag

Private Team's Attempt to Move Vintage NASA Probe Hits Snag The quest to rescue a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft will go on for at least another day, as a private group controlling the probe achieved only partial success with an engine firing Tuesday (July 8). The private team operating NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft (ISEE-3) aimed to fire its engine numerous times to change the probe's trajectory and put it in a more stable position for communicating with Earth. "The first segment was full duration but only partially successful," Keith Cowing, co-leader of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, wrote in a blog post Wednesday (July 9).




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