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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Ulysses probe
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 22:12:23 EST
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In article <27219.509662022@csvax.caltech.edu> jon@CSVAX.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>>	    Ulysses is a European probe, to  be  launched  from  the  Shuttle,
>>	which will go over one the Sun's poles ...
>>
>>     How can it go over one pole but not both?
>
>    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.

   I don't have any idea what these people are talking about.  The whole
idea is that Ulysses is being launched to rendezvous with Jupiter just
like Voyager and Galileo, but it will swing around Jupiter and back over
the solar pole.  Presumably it will then leave the solar system; what
would cause it to circle around to the other pole??

   -- David desJardins