Ulysses
Overview and Objectives:
The Ulysses mission is unique in the history of the exploration of our solar system by spacecraft. Its orbit enabled the scientists, for the first time, to explore the heliosphere within 5 astronomical units of the Sun over all heliospheric latitudes. This provides the first characterization of the third heliospheric dimension. Highly sophisticated scientific instruments carried on board the spacecraft are designed to measure the properties of the solar wind, the heliospheric magnetic field, solar radio bursts and plasma waves, solar X-rays, solar and galactic cosmic rays, and interplanetary/interstellar neutral gas and dust. Ulysses detected cosmic gamma-ray bursts and searches also for gravitational waves.
Experiments:
- HISCALE Heliosphere Instrument for Spectra, Composition & Anisotropy at low Energies
- SWICS Solar Wind Ion Composition Experiment
- URAP Unified Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation
- SWOOPS Solar Wind Plasma Investigation
- COSPIN Cosmic Ray and Solar Particle Investigation
GRB Gamma Ray Burst Experiment
DUST Cosmic Dust Experiment
- EPAC Energetic Particle Investigation
GAS Interstellar Neutral Gas Experiment
- Vector Helium-, Flux Gate- Magnetometer
Resources
ULYSSES - URAP (Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Experiment) Data archive access hosted by Goddard Space Flight Center.
ULYSSES data archive hosted by ESA. The archive provides an on-line facility to browse and download selected measurements made by the scientific instruments flown onboard Ulysses.
ULYSSES Mission description at National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) containing a complex linklist to general informations and data archives.
CDAWEB - Java-based interface-archive for ACE, CRRES, Cluster, DMSP, Equator-S, FAST, Genesis, Geotail, IMAGE, IMP, Interball, OMNI , Pioneer, Polar, SAMPEX, SNOE, SOHO, THEMIS, TIMED, Ulysses, Voyager, Wind and other spacecraft missions.
