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Rendition: Ulysses First South Polar Pass - 26
June 1994 |
Artist
Rendition: Ulysses First North Polar Pass - 19
June 1995 |
Ulysses after deployment from the Shuttle
cargo bay, a combined upper-stage vehicle, consisting
of an Inertial Upper Stage(IUS) together with a Payload
Assist Module (PAM-S) which propelled Ulysses away from
the Earth toward Jupiter. |
Ulysses 1st Perihelion-March 1995 |
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Like its mythical namesake, Ulysses has
ventured into unexplored
territory, seeking knowledge of the world around us.
(Artwork by David Hardy). |
Ulysses
passes through the tail of comet Hyakutake - May
1996. (Digital painting courtesy
of David A. Hardy). |
A gravity-assist manoeuvre at Jupiter
placed Ulysses in its unique polar orbit of the Sun
- February 1992. (Artwork by David Hardy) |
Ulysses Spacecraft |
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The Ulysses flight model on test at the
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
in Noordwijk, The Netherlands in 1985. |
A radioisotope thermoelectric generator
(RTG) assembly and Ulysses undergo a fit-check in 1989. |
Ulysses undergoing a pre-flight checkout
and tests in Hangar AO at the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station prior to being moved to the Kennedy Space Center. |
The radial boom on Ulysses is extended
in flight configuration in Hangar AO at the Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station while Ulysses undergoes checks prior
to being moved to the Kennedy Space Center. |
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Ulysses is mated with the Payload Assist
Module-S (PAM-S) in the Vertical Processing Facility
at the Kennedy Space Center. |
Ulysses sits atop the Payload Assist Module-S
(PAM-S) and Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) combination in
the Vertical Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space
Center. |
Ulysses 15th Anniversary Video |
2006 Ulysses and Voyager Holiday Party. |
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Ulysses 17th Anniversary Picnic
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3rd Heliospheric Workshop, Ketalonia, Greece, May 6-9, 2008 |
The sun will soon set on the Ulysses solar mission, which forever changed the way scientists view the sun and its affect on space. |
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