ULYSSES

Ulysses is a joint project between ESA and NASA. It was designed to explore the unknown region of space above the poles of the Sun. Launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery in October 1990. Ulysses flew by Jupiter in February 1992, where a gravity assist maneuvers placed the spacecraft in a unique solar polar orbit, allowing it to fly over the south pole of the Sun in 1994 and over the North Pole in 1995. With the first phase of its mission successfully completed, Ulysses has embarked on a second orbit of the Sun, which was completed in December 2001. After over 18 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise due to a weakened power supply, Ulysses conducted its final communication pass with a ground station on 30 June 2009.

You can access the data for this mission from the main menu (above) or directly from here.