ISEE-3 / International Cometary Explorer spacecraft family
ISEE-3 was a NASA-ESA cooperative heliophysics spacecraft that pioneered a Sun-Earth L1 halo orbit, then became ICE for the first comet flyby at Giacobini-Zinner and later supplied solar-wind data near Halley.
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Identity
- Aliases
- ISEE-3ISEE-CInternational Sun-Earth Explorer 3ICEInternational Cometary Explorer
- Family Name
- ISEE-3 / ICE
- Full Name
- ISEE-3 / International Cometary Explorer spacecraft family
- Roles
- orbiterinterplanetary_probeflyby
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- ISEE-3 was a NASA-ESA cooperative heliophysics spacecraft that pioneered a Sun-Earth L1 halo orbit, then became ICE for the first comet flyby at Giacobini-Zinner and later supplied solar-wind data near Halley.
- First Flight Year
- 1,978
- Last Flight Year
- 1,997
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/isee-3-ice/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 6, 2026 at 16:23:02 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 6, 2026 at 16:23:02 UTC