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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Gravity slingshots
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 13:00:04 EDT
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> Jupiter must be a very attractive gravity well to NASA mission
> planners.  I remember a couple of years ago a NASA/ESA combined
> mission using two identical spacecraft was planned and 
> subsequently canned.

No, only NASA's half of it was canned, unilaterally and to the great
displeasure of the Europeans, who had thought that a US promise meant
something.  The European probe, now named Ulysses (used to be International
Solar Polar Mission) is going ahead.  The US is supplying the launch
free as a consolation prize.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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