This mission is providing a unique opportunity to explore the solar wind plasma, magnetic field, and energetic particle processes in interplanetary space over the full range of heliographic latitudes up to about 80 degrees during phases of minimum and maximum solar activity. Click here for the most recent report from the Ulysses Project Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the mission status. The Jupiter encounter swung the spacecraft out of the ecliptic into a heliocentric orbit inclined about 80 degrees to the ecliptic and with a period of about six years. Pointing and clicking on each experiment label brings up detailed descriptions of that experiment.
All instruments remain fully functional through the ongoing main phases of the mission.
UDS was originally implemented as a prototype online archive for distribution of proprietary Ulysses data among the experiment investigators and now also serves as a primary distribution point for data acquisition by the NASA archives.