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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Ulysses Update - 01/05/93
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:50:00 GMT
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- ULYSSES MISSION STATUS
- January 5, 1993
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- All spacecraft and science operations are performing well.
- Ground controllers are carrying out routine data-gathering
- activities and experiment reconfigurations as required. The 34-
- meter ground antennas are being used for ranging when the
- spacecraft is sending data at a low bit rate. Seventy-meter-
- antenna ranging passes are also performed periodically.
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- Earth-pointing maneuvers were carried out on Dec. 27 and 30,
- 1992, and on Jan. 3, 1993. The next maneuver is scheduled for
- Jan. 7, 1993.
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- Today Ulysses is about 688 million kilometers (428 million
- miles) from Earth, traveling at a heliocentric velocity of about
- 32,000 kilometers per hour (21,000 miles per hour). Ulysses is
- about 15.5 degrees south of the ecliptic plane in which the
- planets orbit, slowly looping its way back toward the sun.
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