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06-03-2014, 11:06 PM
Dangers Loom for 36-Year-Old ISEE-3 Space Probe
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On April 7, 1986, NASA scientist Bob Farquhar sent final instructions to the International Comet Explorer (ICE), a half-ton probe that had made its way 54 million miles from Earth. It had passed through the tail of Halley's Comet only a few days before, and **w the mission's flight director told the satellite to go on a long journey. ICE would fall into an Earth-like orbit around the sun, tour empty space, and eventually catch up to Earth in 2014.
Launched in 1978 as a solar observatory, the probe had already spent years in space, hopping from one mission to a**ther. Farquhar imagined future astronauts picking up the satellite as it re-approached its home world. NASA even preemptively donated the craft to the Smithsonian. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/isee-spacecraft-navigation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Launched in 1978 as a solar observatory, the probe had already spent years in space, hopping from one mission to a**ther. Farquhar imagined future astronauts picking up the satellite as it re-approached its home world. NASA even preemptively donated the craft to the Smithsonian. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/isee-spacecraft-navigation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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