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Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook

 

Appendix B: Acronyms

 

 

BAM BAMe (SWOOPS) experiment
CDF Common Data File
CD­ROM Compact Disk ­ Read Only Memory
CNO Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen
COSPIN COsmic ray and Solar Particle INvestigation
DMT Data Management Team
ELF Extra Low Frequency
EPAC Energetic PArticle Composition experiment
ESA European Space Agency
ESTEC European Space research and TEchnology Centre
GLG GLoeckler Geiss (SWICS) experiment
HED HEDgecock (VHM/FGM) experiment
HET High Energy Telescope
HI­SCALE Heliosphere Instrument for Spectra, Composition and Anisotropy at Low Energies
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
KEP KEPpler (EPAC) experiment
KET Kiel Electron Telescope
LAN LANzerotti (HI­SCALE) experiment
LET Low Energy Telescope
PI Principal Investigator
SIM SIMpson (COSPIN) experiment
STO STOne (URAP) experiment
SW Solar Wind
SWICS Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer
SWOOPS Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun
URAP Unified Radio And Plasma wave experiment
VHM/FGM Vector Helium Magnetometer/ Flux Gate Magnetometer
VLF Very Low Frequency

 

 

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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane

QUICK FACTS

Manufacturer: ESA provided the Ulysses spacecraft, NASA provided the power supply, and various others provided its instruments.

Mission End Date: June 30, 2009

Destination: The inner heliosphere of the sun away from the ecliptic plane

Orbit:  Elliptical orbit transversing the polar regions of the sun outside of the ecliptic plane