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Ulysses furthest from Earth 28 August

17 September 1998

The distance between Earth and Ulysses reached its maximum value on 28 August. the spacecraft and its home base are separated by 951 million kilometres (6.36 times theSun-Earth distance).

At this distance, signals from the spacecraft take 53 minutes to reach the Earth.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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