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Old 13-June-2008, 12:50 PM
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Default Ulysses Mission to End After 17 Years

For more than 17 years the Ulysses spacecraft studied the sun, pioneering solar science and defining our knowledge of the sun's heliosphere. But on July 1, the mission will end. The spacecraft has been slowly "dying" due a dwindling power supply which can no longer keep the spacecraft warm enough. But Ulysses [...]

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