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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The End of Ulysses -- How Engineers Kept It Alive So Long

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2009

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, podcast fans. Did you worry about us? The Planetary Society website went through a

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major upgrade in the last few days, about actually about a week and a half two weeks

0:11.4

ago. We didn't realize until we were a few days in

0:15.2

that that upgrade had messed up the feed, the podcast feed of last week's show. We hope most of you

0:22.2

have now heard it. We know that it became

0:24.3

available on Saturday just this past Saturday. We are very sorry about that. As you'll

0:29.8

here we are still driving on with our campaign to save Planetary Radio.

0:37.2

Your response so far, many of you, has just been fantastic and we certainly are much closer to making sure that the radio

0:45.4

show is not going to disappear into the ether or whatever the internet equivalent of

0:51.9

that is.

0:53.1

But we're going to keep this campaign up for just a little bit longer.

0:56.2

You still have time.

0:57.4

If you've been considering making a donation to support the radio show, let me assure you that it will be not just much

1:04.5

appreciated but is very much needed. That's about it. Oh, one more thing. We want to

1:10.7

have a shout out, say hello to two of our youngest listeners, two of the perhaps

1:16.5

youngest fans of space exploration who catch planetary radio, I'm told every week,

1:22.1

Neil Gupta and Bailey Godowski, this one goes out to you.

1:27.0

The end of Ulysses, this week on Planetary Radio.

1:37.0

Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the

1:46.2

final frontier. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. The Ulysses we have in

1:51.9

mine was supposed to die months ago, but this pioneering spacecraft,

1:56.5

the first to study the poles of our son, was only shut down last week following a heroic and ingenious effort by the European and American

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