{"id":6455,"date":"2014-05-30T18:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:02:43","slug":"nasas-lost-satellite-just-made-its-first-contact-with-earth-in-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/05\/30\/nasas-lost-satellite-just-made-its-first-contact-with-earth-in-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Lost Satellite Just Made Its First Contact With Earth in 17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s official: ISEE-3, the 36-year-old satellite that NASA left for dead over a decade ago, is back in touch with humankind. This afternoon, a group of citizen scientists who raised almost $160,000 to fund the process of taking control of ISEE-3 announced that two-way contact has been established with the little satellite that could. So what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the coming days and weeks our team will make an assessment of the spacecraft\u2019s overall health and refine the techniques required to fire its engines and bring it back to an orbit near Earth,\u201d explained the Reboot team in a triumphant comment released today. Contact was made at Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico, where scientists collaborated with a worldwide network of like-minded space fans to fund and engineer the project.<\/p>\n

Full article: http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/n \u2026 579851540\/1583504727<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s official: ISEE-3, the 36-year-old satellite that NASA left for dead over a decade ago, is back in touch with humankind. This afternoon, a group of citizen scientists who raised almost $160,000 to fund the process of taking control of ISEE-3 announced that two-way contact has been established with the little satellite that could. So what\u2019s next? \u201cOver the coming days and weeks our team will make an assessment of the spacecraft\u2019s overall health and refine the techniques required to fire its engines and bring it back to an orbit near Earth,\u201d explained the Reboot team in a triumphant comment released today. Contact was made at Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico, where scientists collaborated with a worldwide network of like-minded space fans to fund and engineer the project. Full article: http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/n \u2026 579851540\/1583504727<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[927,1205],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-isee-3","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}