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The Ulysses space mission.

Poletto, G.; Noci, G.; Monsignori Fossi, B. C.

The authors describe briefly the collaborative ESA-NASA Ulysses mission which will provide, for the first time in the history of the solar-system exploration, in situ observations of the heliosphere over a broad range of heliographic latitudes. Launched on October 6, 1990, Ulysses has been injected in a high-inclination orbit by means of a gravity…