ICE.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Spase xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.spase-group.org/data/schema" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.spase-group.org/data/schema http://www.spase-group.org/data/schema/spase-2_3_1.xsd">
<Version>2.3.1</Version>
<Observatory>
<ResourceID>spase://CNES/Observatory/CDPP-AMDA/ICE</ResourceID>
<ResourceHeader>
<ResourceName>ICE</ResourceName>
<AlternateName>International Cometary Explorer : Giacobini-Zinner Flyby</AlternateName>
<ReleaseDate>2017-03-27T18:45:12Z</ReleaseDate>
<Description>The International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft (designed and launched as the
International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) satellite), was launched August 12, 1978,
into a heliocentric orbit. It was one of three spacecraft, along with the mother/daughter pair
of ISEE-1 and ISEE-2, built for the International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE) program, a
joint effort by NASA and ESRO/ESA to study the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field
and the solar wind.
ISEE-3 was the first spacecraft to be placed in a halo orbit at the L1 Earth-Sun Lagrangian point.
Renamed ICE, it became the first spacecraft to visit a comet, passing through the tail of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
within about 7,800 km of the nucleus. NASA suspended routine contact with ISEE-3 in 1997, and made brief status
checks in 1999 and 2008.
On May 29, 2014, two-way communication with the spacecraft was reestablished by the ISEE-3 Reboot Project,
an unofficial group[4] with support from the Skycorp company. On July 2, 2014, they fired the thrusters for the
first time since 1987. However, later firings of the thrusters failed, apparently due to a lack of nitrogen
pressurant in the fuel tanks.[8][9] The project team will pursue an alternative plan to use the spacecraft to
"collect scientific data and send it back to Earth.</Description>
<Contact>
<PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Robert.W.Farquhar</PersonID>
<Role>ProjectScientist</Role>
</Contact>
</ResourceHeader>
<Location>
<ObservatoryRegion>Comet</ObservatoryRegion>
</Location>
<OperatingSpan>
<StartDate>1978-08-12T00:00:00</StartDate>
<Note>Depart from Earth: 1983-12-22T00:00:00</Note>
<Note>Encounter with Giacobini-Zinner : 1985-09-11T00:00:00</Note>
</OperatingSpan>
</Observatory>
</Spase>