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Ulysses and probe
Two other satellites made observations at the time of the impact: the Ulysses spacecraft, primarily designed for solar observations, was pointed towards Jupiter from its location 2. 6 AU away, and the distant Voyager 2 probe, some 44 AU from Jupiter and on its way out of the Solar System following its encounter with Neptune in 1989, was programmed to look for radio emission in the 1 – 390 kHz range.
* 1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
Had STS-51-L been successful, Challengers next mission would have been the deployment of the Ulysses probe with the Centaur to study the polar regions of the Sun.
It has also launched the Ulysses probe and three TDRS satellites.
* Ulysses ( spacecraft ), a space probe designed to study the Sun
Ulysses is a decommissioned robotic space probe that was designed to study the Sun as a joint venture of NASA and the European Space Agency ( ESA ).
Typically, a determination came from comparing: one of several spacecraft orbiting the Earth, an inner-Solar-system probe ( to Mars, Venus, or an asteroid ), and Ulysses.
The crew for STS-26 is based on the original crew assignment of STS-61-F, which would've launched the Ulysses probe from Challenger in 1986.
The four-day mission with a primary objective to launch the Ulysses probe as part of the " International Solar Polar Mission ".
In May 1985 he was named Commander of the Centaur-boosted Ulysses solar probe mission, STS 61F ( sponsored by the European Space Agency ).
Shepherd then served as a mission specialist on three Space Shuttle flights: mission STS-27 in 1988, mission STS-41 in 1990, which deployed the Ulysses probe, and mission STS-52 in 1992.
During 66 orbits of the Earth, the STS-41 crew successfully deployed the Ulysses spacecraft, starting this interplanetary probe on its four-year journey, via Jupiter, to investigate the polar regions of the Sun.
During 66 orbits of the Earth, the five-man crew successfully deployed the Ulysses spacecraft, starting the interplanetary probe on its four-year journey, via Jupiter, to investigate the polar regions of the Sun ; operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet instrument ( SSBUV ) to map atmospheric ozone levels ; activated a controlled " fire in space " experiment ( the Solid Surface Combustion Experiment, or SSCE ); and conducted numerous other middeck experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer membrane production, and microgravity effects on plants.
The burst was also detected by the Ulysses space probe.
It defines a Heliospheric mission for ICE consisting of investigations of coronal mass ejections in coordination with ground-based observations, continued cosmic ray studies, and the Ulysses probe.
He was recruited by Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA FFRDC Contractor, where he played a role in several NASA programs, including the Magellan probe to Venus, the Ulysses probe to the Sun, the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter, and the Mars Observer and Mars Pathfinder.

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