jon@CSVAX.CALTECH.EDU (Jonathan P. Leech) (03/03/86)
Recently I made the following statement: "Ulysses is a European probe, to be launched from the Shuttle, which will go over one the Sun's poles..." this has lead to an unfortunate amount of flaming and confusion. What I should have said was that, as far as I know (which is not all that far), there are no plans for the Ulysses mission to continue around to the other pole, i.e. ESA will not be receiving information from it at that time. This is based solely on some sketches of the flight plan I saw years ago. What I said was not intended to be an assertion about orbital mechanics; I really don't know if the mission will remain in Solar orbit or not. There was a scientist who is *** ACTUALLY PARTICPATING *** in the Ulysses mission who made a couple of comments about it (name unfortunately forgotten) - perhaps he is willing to clear this up. -- Jon Leech (jon@csvax.caltech.edu) __@/