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From: jon@CSVAX.CALTECH.EDU
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Subject: Re: Ulysses probe
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 15:57:17 EST
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>   From:    "Keith F. Lynch" <KFL@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
>
>	From: jon@csvax.caltech.edu
>
>	    Ulysses is a European probe, to  be  launched  from  the  Shuttle,
>	which will go over one the Sun's poles ...
>	    Originally there was to have been an American  probe  launched  at
>	the same time to go over the other solar pole. Funding was cut a few
>	years ago, making the Europeans rather mad as I recall.
>
>     How can it go over one pole but not both?
>								    ...Keith

    Well, the two probes could have run into one another  on  the  far
side of the sun... (:-)

    I don't know if there are any plans to  keep  talking  to  Ulysses
after the first polar flyby. Maybe the geometry will be wrong, or  the
spacecraft will lose radio lock on Earth  while  flying  'behind'  the
sun.

    -- Jon (jon@csvax.caltech.edu)
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