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)
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