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i remember an article, maybe on arstechnica maybe a decade ago about a group of enthusiasts who had found some old satellite computer at a home. they looked it
by 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
i remember an article, maybe on arstechnica maybe a decade ago about a group of enthusiasts who had found some old satellite computer at a home. they looked it up and found it belonged to some old satellite nasa had forgotten about so they asked for permission to try to contact it and eventually they did get it to run a booster after decades. Don't know what it was but this sounds like that somewhat
- EvanAnderson 5y agoYou're thinking of the ISEE-3 reboot project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer#ISEE-3_Reboot_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explore...
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agooh sweet. this is nice. yeah https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/nasa-hands-space-enthusiasts-the-keys-to-a-1970s-era-spacecraft/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/nasa-hands-space-ent... this is probably the exact one. well not quite a decade but it is close
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoand what do you know... http://spacecollege.org/isee3/isee-3-is-in-safe-mode.html http://spacecollege.org/isee3/isee-3-is-in-safe-mode.html links to https://www.spacecraftforall.com/ https://www.spacecraftforall.com/ which is now a vpn site