Ulysses (spacecraft)
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Ulysses was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes. It was launched in 1990 and made three "fast latitude scans" of the Sun in 1994/1995, 2000/2
Ulysses spacecraft
Ulysses spacecraft
Ulysses radial boom test
Ulysses sits atop the PAM-S and IUS combination
Shuttle-Centaur
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Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle and used to launch satellites into high Earth orbits or probes into deep space. Tw
Illustration of Shuttle-Centaur G-Prime with Ulysses
A Centaur rocket during assembly at General Dynamics in 1962. Its development pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen as a rocket fuel.
Artist's impression of the Galileo spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter
Galileo spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 in 1989