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Ulysses

Ulysses is explored here through 1 archived mission, from Ulysses through Ulysses, with the program’s spacecraft, people, milestones, and source-backed history connected along the way.

Missions: 1
People: 0
Vehicles: 2

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Ulysses spacecraft

1 mission-specific spacecraft and test articles, plus 1 launch systems and shared hardware records.

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Solar-polar heliophysics probeOctober 6, 1990

Ulysses spacecraft

Ulysses spacecraft launched at 818 pounds (371 kilograms) under European Space Agency and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Payload Assist Module-S official NASA archive view

Solid-propellant upper stage

Payload Assist Module-S was a mission-specific, spin-stabilized solid upper stage developed to give the Ulysses solar-polar probe the final velocity increment it needed after the Inertial Upper Stage completed its burns.

Program archive

Ulysses

Ulysses is explored here through 1 archived mission, from Ulysses through Ulysses, with the program’s spacecraft, people, milestones, and source-backed history connected along the way.

Missions: 1
People: 0
Vehicles: 2

Explore this program

Choose a path through the Ulysses archive.

Currently viewing · Spacecraft

Ulysses spacecraft

1 mission-specific spacecraft and test articles, plus 1 launch systems and shared hardware records.

Showing vehicles 1–2 of 2SortPer Page

Solar-polar heliophysics probeOctober 6, 1990

Ulysses spacecraft

Ulysses spacecraft launched at 818 pounds (371 kilograms) under European Space Agency and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Solid-propellant upper stage

Payload Assist Module-S

Payload Assist Module-S was a mission-specific, spin-stabilized solid upper stage developed to give the Ulysses solar-polar probe the final velocity increment it needed after the Inertial Upper Stage completed its burns.