"We expect certain parts of the spacecraft to reach 2 C pretty soon," said Richard Marsden, Ulysses Project Scientist and Mission Manager in a release, explaining that freezing will block the fuel ...

The interplanetary space probe Ulysses officially ceased operations on Tuesday after an 18-year voyage of roughly 8.85 billion kilometres and nearly three complete orbits around the sun, NASA said.

The interplanetary space probe Ulysses officially ceased operations on Tuesday after an 18-year voyage of roughly 5.5 billion miles and nearly three complete orbits around the sun, NASA said.

After 18 years of operation, NASA has switched off Ulysses, the space probe designed to study the properties of solar wind, the heliosphere magnetic field, and the solar radio bursts that can ...

The spacecraft Ulysses essentially consists of two main elements: the instrument platform and the antenna. The platform is a box-like structure, each side measuring 3.2 meters, and 2.1 meters high.

The Ulysses spacecraft, which launched as a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission, ceased operations Tuesday afternoon.

It isn’t possible to see the poles of the Sun from Earth or space probes unless you look at them from the plane in which the planets orbit the Sun. Only the Ulysses space probe flew over the ...

IBEX spacecraft measures 'alien' particles from outside solar system (PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, an international team of researchers ...

ESA’s Science Programme Committee has unanimously approved to continue the operations of the highly successful Ulysses spacecraft until March 2009. This latest extension, for a period of 12 m… ...

Mission Status The spacecraft and its scientific payload are in good health and no anomalies have occurred during the reporting period. Nevertheless, because of the large distance from the Sun […] ...

The interplanetary space probe Ulysses officially ceased operations on June 30, after an 18-year voyage of roughly 5.5 billion miles (8.85 billion km) and nearly three complete orbits around the ...