So, You Want To Seize a Satellite?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 20, 2014

A small group of volunteers and aerospace engineers recently seized control of the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 satellite, which was launched in 1978 and since abandoned. Through crowd-funding, the group was able to construct a mission control in an abandoned McDonald's in Mountain View, California. Dennis Wingo, CEO of SkyCorp and project leader of the ISEE-3 reboot project, tells us about how the group gained control of the satellite and problems with the vehicle’s propulsion.  

Track the ISEE-3 live as it hurtles through the solar system.

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