IMAGE 1000_99\84.Lbm,The Ulysses probe undergoes final tests at Cape Canaveral in June 1990, four months before launch.
IMAGE 1300_99\381.Lbm,Computer view of Ulysses in flight configuration. The boom at top left, measuring 5.6 metres, long, carries two magnetometers, solar X-ray and gamma-ray burst detectors, and a search coil for detecting magnetic waves. The device coloured blue is a nuclear- powered electrical source.
IMAGE 1300_99\382.Lbm,Carrying space probe Ulysses, shuttle orbiter Discovery soars from the launch pad on October 6, 1990, on the STS-41 mission.
IMAGE 1300_99\377.Lbm,The joint European Space Agency/NASA mission Ulysses explores the polar regions of the Sun, after a gravity-assist manoeuvre at Jupiter.
IMAGE 1300_99\385.Lbm,Overview of the Ulysses mission, giving the time scale of voyage of exploration.
IMAGE 1300_99\380.Lbm,Data relating to Ulysses, the first probe to explore the Sun's polar regions.
IMAGE 1000_99\87.Lbm,Shortly after reaching orbit, the Discovery astronauts deploy the Ulysses probe, seen here against the blackness of space attached to its booster rocket. (STS-41)
IMAGE 1300_99\384.Lbm,Ulysses flies by Jupiter 16 months after launch and right on target. It uses Jupiter's powerful gravity to deflect it into an orbit that will take it out of the plane of the planets' orbits and 'below' the south polar region of the Sun.
