ESA, NASA End Ulysses Solar Orbiter Mission
The U.S.-European Ulysses solar probe is silently orbiting the Sun like a comet, after controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory switched it off June 30 to end its mission. Launched on the space shuttle Discovery in October 1990, Ulysses was the first spacecraft to orbit over the Sun’s poles...
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