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The Ulysses Mission in the High Latitude Heliosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D.E. Page ,
R.G. Marsden ,
E.J. Smith  and
K.-P. Wenzel
D.E. Page
Affiliation:
ESA Ulysses Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
R.G. Marsden
Affiliation:
Space Science Department, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, Netherlands
E.J. Smith
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
K.-P. Wenzel
Affiliation:
Space Science Department, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, Netherlands

Abstract

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Ulysses, a joint ESA/NASA mission launched in October 1990, will be the first to explore the high latitude heliosphere. Launch will be from the Shuttle and a Jupiter gravity assist will be used to send the spacecraft first over the southern solar pole approximately three and one half years after launch and then over the northern solar pole one year later. Instruments will be carried to study the solar wind, the heliospheric magnetic field, energetic solar particles, galactic cosmic rays, solar X- rays, cosmic gamma rays cosmic dust and interstellar neutral helium. The radio signals used to track and transmit spacecraft data will be used also to sound the corona and to search for gravitational waves.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 307 - 313
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990

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