Ulysses
Ulysses was a completed joint ESA-NASA mission that used a Jupiter gravity assist to survey the Sun and heliosphere from a unique polar orbit, returning more than eighteen years of solar-wind, magnetic-field, particle, dust, and radio science.
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- Ulysses missionInternational Solar Polar MissionUlysses solar-polar mission
- Name
- Ulysses
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Ulysses was a completed joint ESA-NASA mission that used a Jupiter gravity assist to survey the Sun and heliosphere from a unique polar orbit, returning more than eighteen years of solar-wind, magnetic-field, particle, dust, and radio science.
- Destination
- Sun
- End Date
- 2009-06-30
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Ulysses completed nearly three heliocentric orbits and delivered the first global, high-latitude survey of the heliosphere before operations ended on 30 June 2009.
- Start Date
- 1990-10-06
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- Creation Time
- July 31, 2026 at 23:33:30 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 31, 2026 at 23:33:30 UTC
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