ICE is an alternate name for ISEE 3
The spacecraft ISEE 3 underwent maneuvers in December of 1983 to send it on its
new mission to explore Comet Gizcobini-Zinner. A final close lunar flyby (119.4
km above the moon's surface) on December 22, 1983, ejected the spacecraft out
of the Earth-Moon system and into a heliocentric orbit ahead of the Earth,
on a trajectory intercepting that of Comet Giacobini-Zinner. At this time,
the spacecraft was re-named International Cometary Explorer (ICE).
After the Giacobini-Zinner encounter, ICE later was located upstream in the solar
wind from Comet Halley during the encounters of several other spacecraft with Comet Halley.
All of the data, whether from the time period of ISEE 3 or of ICE, are
accessed under the name "isee3" in this
online directory./
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