The Ulysses mission in the high latitude heliosphereUlysses, 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.
Document ID
19930039427
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Page, D. E. (JPL Pasadena, CA, United States)
Marsden, R. G. (ESTEC Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Smith, E. J. (JPL Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wenzel, K.-P. (ESTEC Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: In: Observatories in earth orbit and beyond (A93-23401 07-89)