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A group of citizen scientists has commandeered a NASA spacecraft that was launched in 1978 and had gone unused since 1997. 
  
 Today the group made first contact with the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) when the spacecraft acknowledged receiving a signal from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, says Keith Cowing, co-director of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, a group of about 20 volunteer space buffs. “We knew we could do this—it’s a vindication,” he says. “It’s sort of like reaching back in time to grab something that otherwise would have been lost.” 
  
 Cowing says that the group is now getting telemetry data from the spacecraft. Over the coming days, they will try to understand the health of the spacecraft and its 13 scientific instruments. The spacecraft was launched to study space weather and is due to make a close pass around the moon. 
  
 Next month, they plan to instigate a burn with the remaining fuel and move the spacecraft into a new orbit. Also in June, they plan to start communicating with ISEE-3 from a second radio telescope, a 21-meter dish at Morehead State University in Kentucky. This dish is more movable than the massive Arecibo telescope and can better track the spacecraft as it gets closer to Earth, Cowing says. 
  
 The ISEE-3 Reboot Project raised more than $150,000 in crowd-funding to support its volunteer efforts. ||||| America 
  
 After Decades Of Silent Wandering, NASA Probe Phones Home 
  
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 You might call it the ultimate long shot — a group of space enthusiasts trying to re-establish contact with a wayward satellite launched in 1978. Figuratively speaking, it's been off the radar for decades. 
  
 No more. 
  
 "The initial contact was a tone followed by specific commands," project organizer Keith Cowing told NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce by email. "We learned a lot simply by being able to talk to it and get it to do things. 
  
 "May not sound like much but that was a huge unknown," he adds. 
  
 Nell says that ISEE-3 "has been on a long, lonely trek around the Sun for about three decades after a mission to a comet." 
  
 Now it's approaching Earth and it could be commanded to go to a spot between our planet and the Sun, where there's a chance it could still do some good science, Nell says. 
  
 The biggest challenge had been figuring out how to talk to the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3, because space communications have changed so radically over the years. NASA agreed to let a private group, known as the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, raise money and try. 
  
 The group used the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico to send commands — and ISEE-3 responded. 
  
 As Nell reported in March, the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3, originally built to study the solar wind, was "borrowed" by a NASA scientist in the 1980s, and redirected toward a rendezvous with a comet. 
  
 Nell writes that the scientist, Robert Farquhar, "came up with a complicated trajectory that would let this spacecraft intercept a comet Giacobini-Zinner in September of 1985, months before an international armada of other space probes (but none from the U.S.) would arrive at Halley's. 
  
 "We beat all the other countries of the world," recalls Farquhar. "The European Space Agency. The Russians. The Japanese." 
  
 The team that's "recaptured" ISEE-3 will begin to assess the health of its systems and instruments in the days and weeks ahead, Nells says. If all goes well, they hope to fire its engines and put it on a new path by mid-June. 
  
 "We need to know a lot before we do that," Cowing told NPR. "This is just the beginning of a long process." |||||

A group of space enthusiasts has managed to gain control of an abandoned NASA spacecraft that has been dormant since the '90s. The International Sun-Earth Explorer, or ISEE-3, was launched in 1978 to study solar wind and, since NASA showed little interest in waking it up, the group hatched a crowdfunded plan to take control of it as it neared Earth this year, reports NPR. The citizen scientists figured out how to communicate with the decades-old spacecraft and managed to make first contact yesterday. "We knew we could do this—it’s a vindication," the co-director of the reboot project tells Science. "It's sort of like reaching back in time to grab something that otherwise would have been lost." The team plans to assess the health of the spacecraft and its scientific instruments before starting a burn with its remaining fuel and shifting it into a new orbit, where it can carry out more research. This isn't the first time the ISEE-3 has been commandeered—in 1983, NASA scientist Robert Farquhar "hijacked" the spacecraft and sent it on a mission to rendezvous with a comet.