1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories
Ulysses
First mission to study the heliosphere above and below the Sun’s poles.
Era 3 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 6 Oct 1990
- Lead / partner
- ESA / NASA
- Target
- Sun
- Category
- Solar observatory
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Heliocentric orbit
Why it happened
Ulysses flew during 1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories, as part of ESA / NASA's work toward sun. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: First mission to study the heliosphere above and below the Sun’s poles.
Results
First mission to study the heliosphere above and below the Sun’s poles.
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Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog