Google: A Spacecraft For All
In 2014, a long-dead satellite was heading towards earth after a 36-year-flight around the sun. Our team collaborated with space scientists at Project ISEE-3 Reboot to attempt to revive the spacecraft as it passed earth. Read the unbelievable story here.
On “A Spacecraft for All”, A Google Chrome Experiment, you can watch a documentary of its journey, read its live instrument data, and view a live simulation of its trajectory in our solar system.
The Documentary Film
Brilliant space scientists tell the story of the amazing journey of the ISEE-3.
The Site
The site tells the entire story of the ISEE-3 from it's original launch in 1978, through missions in orbit and chasing comets, to being decommissioned by NASA, to re-activating with the help of Project Reboot, to it's route past our Moon, all with WebGL over film and constant interaction throughout. You can also read it's live data, and see it's current position.
The Live Lunar Flyby
On August 10th, 2014 we held a Live Lunar Flyby Google Hangout event at Team Reboot's McMoon Headquarters in California. As viewers watched the webcast, they could see the ISEE-3 pass the moon with a live flyby demo on the site.
The Mission Gear
We made an official patch and poster for the team to mark this historic project.
The Team
The team at Project Reboot, who had the crazy idea to revive an old spacecraft for citizen science.
