Ulysses

Ulysses — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Ulysses in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

A joint ESA–NASA mission that used Jupiter’s gravity to climb out of the plane of the planets and became the first spacecraft to fly over the Sun’s poles, sampling the solar wind for more than 18 years.

Launched

6 Oct 1990

Status

Mission ended 2009 — still looping over the Sun’s poles, silent

Explore Ulysses in 3D

Explore Ulysses along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.