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Ulysses probe
Ulysses is an unmanned probe designed to study the Sun at all latitudes. The spacecraft, named for the Latin translation of "Odysseus", was launched in October 1990 from the Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-41) as a joint venture of NASA and the European Space Agency.
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