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36 year-old 'Retired' satellite ISEE-3, rebooted 
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This is fantastic
The rescue team wanted to park the vintage International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft (ISEE-3), in a stable location between the Earth and the sun called L-1. But those attempts ended when controllers discovered there wasn't enough nitrogen pressurant left in the probe's tanks to help make course corrections.

Keith Cowing, co-leader of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, told Space.com, “We’re disappointed we couldn’t put it in the L-1 orbit, but we had a lot of scientists saying we’re more interested in interplanetary space,”

I wonder if NASA has other satellites out there which could be utilised in a similar fashion?

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Great story! Just a shame Google seem to have taken over and are almost claiming it as their own project. On the website they call it "a Chrome Experiment" and want me to download Google Chrome, er, no thanks! ;-)

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