What's Up With Ulysses?, alive? dead? cancelled soon? |
What's Up With Ulysses?, alive? dead? cancelled soon? |
Sep 27 2005, 04:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
What is up with the tiny Ulysses spacecraft that was launched in 1990 to study the solar whatever at high lattitudes? Last I heard it was in danger of dying because the RTG power was running low and at aphelion there was a risk of the hydrazine freezing/exploding in its propulsion system. Well that was like a year ago and I haven't heard anything since. It looks like it should've passed aphelion by now and should be out of danger.....
Its been going up there for over a full solar cycle, is it one of the missions on the chopping block because of the new humans on moon/mars thing? |
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Feb 22 2008, 06:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
You know, for all the flack that ESA's press folks get, I have to say that their framing of this story is pretty apt. Usually this sort of thing ends up reported in the press as "BILLION EURO SPACECRAFT MALFUNCTION" not http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=...tnG=Search+News
"End of the odyssey for brave space probe Ulysses" "Ulysses mission coming to a natural end" |
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