Crowd-funded ISEE-3 reboot mission to begin Sunday after lunar flyby

A rendering of ISEE-3.

NASA

A vintage NASA satellite will fly past our moon Sunday before embarking on a unique citizen science mission.

The International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) will have the closest view of the moon at 11:16 a.m. PDT. Members of the rebooted mission partnered with Google to create a website, where they will host a video hangout beginning at 10:30 a.m. PDT.

The website, which launched on Friday, will play a greater role in the future as a source to view data from the ISEE-3 as it orbits the sun.