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Question: What is the status on the satellite "Galileo" and was not there a 
satellite that was going to explore the sun's magnetosphere outside the 
ecliptic?   What is the status on that?
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Text:        Galileo is working fine except for the deployment of the main 
telemetry dish antenna:  telemetry is being performed at a much slower rate by 
a smaller antenna.  And yes, there is a solar polar mission, but I do not 
recall its name.  For questions like these check NASA's BBS, spacelink, which 
you can get to from newton by selecting teaching topics from the main menu.
John Hawley
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The spacecraft that was sent to explore the sun's polar region 
was named Ulysses.
Ronald Winther
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