This isn't the first time amateur astronomers are helping NASA: in 2014 a group of amateur astronomers rebooted a long-lost satellite from the 1970s (ISEE-3). T

This isn't the first time amateur astronomers are helping NASA: in 2014 a group of amateur astronomers rebooted a long-lost satellite from the 1970s (ISEE-3). They even managed to fire the thrusters for the first time since 1987 but sadly, contact was lost again later that year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer#Reboot_effort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explore...