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On the final trajectory to the solar poles

Hampel, Guenther

The Ulysses spacecraft's encounter with Jupiter is described to illustrate the swing-by maneuver from the Jovian ecliptic plane to a trajectory over the solar poles. Details are provided of the Jupiter fly-by and the theoretical principles of the swing-by maneuver including the optimization of the 70-deg dwell time and three trajectory-correction …