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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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                     ULYSSES MISSION STATUS
                         January 5, 1993

     All spacecraft and science operations are performing well.
Ground controllers are carrying out routine data-gathering
activities and experiment reconfigurations as required.  The 34-
meter ground antennas are being used for ranging when the
spacecraft is sending data at a low bit rate.  Seventy-meter-
antenna ranging passes are also performed periodically.  

     Earth-pointing maneuvers were carried out on Dec. 27 and 30,
1992, and on Jan. 3, 1993.  The next maneuver is scheduled for
Jan. 7, 1993.

     Today Ulysses is about 688 million kilometers (428 million
miles) from Earth, traveling at a heliocentric velocity of about
32,000 kilometers per hour (21,000 miles per hour).  Ulysses is
about 15.5 degrees south of the ecliptic plane in which the
planets orbit, slowly looping its way back toward the sun.

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