Success! We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
Thanks to the many WUWT readers that contributed to make this a success! These guys didn’t disappoint. They pulled it off against the odds. Congratulations to them. There’s a great backstory coming related to the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” that I’ll share as soon as I get clearance. – Anthony
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).
For further information on the ISEE-3 Reboot Project please visit our website at http://spacecollege.org/isee3 A much more detailed description of our First Contact efforts and future plans will be published on our website next week.
@ur momisugly RoHa: “Will you demand that world governments pay you the sum of one million dollars,…………” Caught me totally by surprise. I miss Mini-Me.
There’s a great backstory coming related to the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Don’t tell me…
the combination to control the ISEE-3 was G A F F C.
Fantastic! Just getting it to phone home is quite a feat for those that built it and those who are trying to repurpose it. I long to see the REAL reality TV show that comes from the videographers following them. I might be a little esoteric for some, but it has my rapt attention.
Now, what should the show be called?
Unlikeliest Catch
Interplanetary Survivor
Survivorcraft
Junkyard Space
Return of the Space Scientist
Now, what should the show be called?
2014: A Space Oddity.
Okay. Around the world in two minutes. I at first was incredulous about announcing that a local private group had taken control of a satellite. What will the hamper head terrorists do now that they know they could, if smart enough, take control of a satellite? Then I woke up. They wear sandals and sheets. All we have to do is rip a toe nail and the sheets off. Their interpretation (cough cough) of the Quran would require that they become a member of the unclean lowlife if they have a blemish and no sheets.
Okay mods. I know you have my best interests at heart and wouldn’t want me to be on the “thou must die” list so snip away. I am clearly out of line here. Chock it up to it being Friday night. But you have to admit, I bet others were thinking the same thing but were not Irish enough, or three sheets to the wind enough, to say it.
@Pamela Gray on May 30, 2014 at 8:59 pm:
Considering just the hacking exploits of the Syrian Electronic Army, and how in those countries usually the young but sometimes the old can seemingly break overnight and turn fundamentalist/extremist/terrorist and execute their slaughtering, it’s a more serious threat than you wish to acknowledge.
Plus I heard this satellite has no real computer, and is as smart as a boot. So no encrypted commands or passwords. To command it you need to know the “protocols”. Play with the curious knobs on the mystical door until it opens and you are granted the weapon you desire.
Oh, don’t worry about the “Thou must die” list, as you’ve assuredly already made it as an unclean female who has copulated outside of marriage, voluntarily or otherwise. That, and the promoting of Common Core as more suitable for youths over that which is offered in the Madrasah. Corruption of youth with impure influences is a grave matter.
ffffffssssttttblblblbl!!!! Computer screen…meet coffee stain!!!!
Eureka!!!! Next block buster movie script!!!! And filled with hamper-headed bad guys alongside evil traitors from the US! Oh man! The script writes itself!!!!
Break into the satellite systems, reconfigure programs, tell them to…! I’ld pay to see that movie! It could be another Independence Day event! Except the “alien” invasion are us humans!
Mods – Wendt’s latest missive, BIOYA and GFY is another hidden message.
[Yes, all four terms of “endearment and jocularity” were noted at the time. .mod]