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Effects of an apparent space dust impact on a position sensing solid state detector aboard the Ulysses spacecraft

Connell, J. J.

The High Energy Telescope (HET) is part of the COsmic and Solar Particle INvestigation (COSPIN) aboard the Ulysses spacecraft. The Ulysses mission is to explore the Heliosphere in three dimensions by passing over the polar regions of the sun. Ulysses achieved it present high inclination (> 80°) solar orbit via a gravitational sling-shot around …