The Ulysses space mission.
Abstract
The authors describe briefly the collaborative ESA-NASA Ulysses mission which will provide, for the first time in the history of the solar-system exploration, in situ observations of the heliosphere over a broad range of heliographic latitudes. Launched on October 6, 1990, Ulysses has been injected in a high-inclination orbit by means of a gravity-assisted manoeuvre at the time of his encounter with Jupiter, in February 1992. On-board instrumentation will obtain data on the solar wind, the heliosphere magnetic field, radio, X- and γ-bursts, plasma waves and interplanetary and interstellar gas and dust.
- Publication:
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Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C
- Pub Date:
- October 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF02507823
- Bibcode:
- 1992NCimC..15..493M
- Keywords:
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- Gamma Ray Bursts;
- Heliosphere;
- Interplanetary Gas;
- Interstellar Gas;
- Plasma Waves;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar System;
- Solar Wind;
- Ulysses Mission;
- X Rays;
- Cosmic Rays;
- European Space Agency;
- Interstellar Matter;
- Nasa Space Programs