By Ben Evans, on February 10th, 2020 
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying Solar Orbiter lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 11:03 p.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2020. Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between ESA and NASA. Photo: ULA
Rocket launches out of Cape Canaveral, whilst not necessarily an everyday sight, do tend to have […]
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By Ben Evans, on February 8th, 2020 
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands poised to launch the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter from Cape Canaveral, on a mission in collaboration with NASA to explore the sun and its poles up-close. Photo: ULA
More than two decades since it was first conceived as a logical “next step” from the hugely […]
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By Emily Carney, on August 13th, 2014 From the ISEE-3 Reboot Project: “An artist’s rendering depicts the satellite ISEE-3/ICE during its planned lunar fly-by in August 2014.” This past weekend, ISEE-3 made its flyby and waved “goodbye” to the Earth-Moon system. Image Credit: Mark Maxwell/ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Only a few days after one of its successors approached a comet in […]
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By Emily Carney, on July 10th, 2014 From the ISEE-3 Reboot Project: “An artist’s rendering depicts the satellite ISEE-3/ICE during its planned lunar fly-by in August 2014.” Image Credit: Mark Maxwell/ISEE-3 Reboot Project
While the spacecraft may have been frozen in time, the excitement over its reawakening was brand new.
But the effort to re-purpose the long-dormant International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 […]
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By Emily Carney, on May 26th, 2014 This diagram shows the torturous path the ISEE-3 (later ICE) spacecraft made over its 19-year operational life. NASA recently signed an agreement with the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team, who are working on breathing new life into the defunct spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA
On Wednesday, May 21, it was announced that NASA gave a […]
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