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From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
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Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90
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Date: 7 Nov 90 16:35:27 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.162730.6424@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Nov5.184601.9529@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) writes:
>>>Probably because Ulysses is a European project ...
>>
>>Ulysses is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency...
>
>Oh yes, I forgot.  When a project is done by NASA with modest ESA involvement,
>it's a US project (e.g. HST), but when it's done by ESA with modest NASA
>involvement, it's a joint project. :-) :-)
>
>ISPM would have been a joint project.  Ulysses is a European project with
>minor NASA participation.
>-- 

Here is NASA's contributions to the Ulysses mission:

   o Launch vehicle and launch facilities
   o Power Source (RTG)
   o Tracking of the spacecraft using the Deep Space Network
   o 50% of the experiments on board the spacecraft
   o Use of JPL's Control Center 

NASA's participation with Ulysses is much more than minor.

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