The ESA Ulysses data archive

On 30 September 1995, Ulysses completed its prime mission to explore the high-latitude regions of the heliosphere, becoming the first spacecraft to truly escape from the confines of the ecliptic plane. The spacecraft's scientific payload has returned unique and continuous data throughout, cowering the in-ecliptic transfer orbit to Jupiter, the flyby of the giant planet, the descent to the south pole of the Sun, and the subsequent ascent over its north pole. With approval from the funding agencies to extend the mission far a second solar orbit, the complete set of: Ulysses measurements will provide an invaluable source of data for space scientists, as well as being of interest to the wider scientific community. The ESA archive for Ulysses data provides public access to the measurements made by the spacecraft, together with the documentation needed for their correct interpretation. plots of selected parameters have been generated and are available on-line for viewing or downloading. The archive, which takes advantage of the infrastructure of the Internet made available through the World Wide Web, will become the central repository in Europe for measurements made throughout the mission's lifetime.