What is Ulysses (spacecraft)?
{{Infobox spaceflight |name=Ulysses |image=Parts_of_Ulysses.jpg |image_caption=Ulysses spacecraft |names_list=Odysseus |mission_type=Heliophysics |operator=NASA / ESA |COSPAR_ID=1990-090B |SATCAT=20842 |mission_duration = {{time interval|October 6, 1990, 11:47:16|show=ymd|sep=,}}<br/>(in orbit) }} '''Ulysses''' was a [[spacecraft]] (or space probe). It was a joint mission by [[NASA]] and [[ESA]]. The spacecraft was launched on October 6, [[1990]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=11Z|title=ESA: Science and Technology: Ulysses: Mission Home|publisher=ESA|accessdate=2011-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.html|title=NASA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ulysses: Mission: Mission Overview|publisher=NASA|date=2011-04-02|accessdate=2011-04-02|archive-date=2011-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309045630/http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its main aims were to study the [[Sun]] and the [[planet]] [[Jupiter]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Jupiter spacecraft}} {{Transport-stub}} [[Category:NASA spacecraft]] [[Category:European Space Agency spacecraft]] [[Category:Spacecraft launched in the 1990s]]