[sci/eng] Hack Mighty Things: Amateur Ground Control Seizes Decommissioned Spacecraft

[siderea]

I'm just gonna quote Randall's XKCD blag post on it entire: Back in early March, I posted comic #1337, Hack, about a wayward spacecraft. ISEE-3/ICE was returning to fly past Earth after many decades of wandering through space. It was still operational, and could potentially be sent on a new mission, but NASA no longer had the equipment to talk to

Comments

[heron61]

Wow, that's deeply awesome. We live in an age of commonplace wonders.

[mortuus]

This is the coolest thing I've read in days!

[fabrisse]

I cried reading this. How perfectly thrilling!

[ron_newman]

This is fabulously amazing.

[cigfran_cg]

so much joy