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Why Don’t We Send Probes “Up” In The Solar System?

9 Jul , 2015 by Fraser Cain

Wouldn’t it be easier to see what’s outside the solar system if we just send out probes straight up? Dammit, science people! Why are you always firing probes “outwards”? Then they have to go past all this stuff, like planets and asteroids and crap to escape the solar system. Don’t you realize that if we […]

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Watch Live Webcast of Ulysses Spacecraft Switch-off

29 Jun , 2009 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] UPDATE: Use this link to watch the webcast (the other one isn’t working very well!) It’s the spacecraft that just won’t quit. We ran a story about a year ago that the Ulysses spacecraft was dying of natural causes (running out of power to keep the spacecraft warm and functional) and its mission would […]

Ulysses Spacecraft Dying of Natural Causes

22 Feb , 2008 by Nancy Atkinson

“One equal temper of heroic heart Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” —from the poem “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Ulysses spacecraft has been heroically studying our sun for more than 17 years, almost four times its expected lifetime. But […]

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Why Don’t We Send Probes “Up” In The Solar System?

Watch Live Webcast of Ulysses Spacecraft Switch-off

Ulysses Spacecraft Dying of Natural Causes

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