Beskrivning : 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 plasma tail of Comet Giacobini-Zinner within about 7,800 km (4,800 mi) of the nucleus on September 11, 1985.
NASA suspended routine contact with ISEE-3 in 1997, and made brief status checks in 1999 and 2008.
Kennedy Space Center post stamp and ISEE 3 satellite.

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ISEE 3 (EXPLORER 59, ICE) (SATELLITE) · DELTA 2914