Rank 84 documents Ulysses — the ESA/NASA spin-stabilized probe that used a Jupiter gravity assist to leave the ecliptic plane and become the first spacecraft to measure the Sun's polar regions. Deployed from Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-41 6 October 1990 via IUS/PAM-S upper stages, Ulysses flew past Jupiter in February 1992, bending its trajectory into an 80° inclination orbit with perihelion near 1.3 AU and aphelion near 5.4 AU. Richard Marsden and Edward Smith's science teams conducted polar passes in 1994–95 and 2000–01, revealing slower polar solar wind and different magnetic field structures than equatorial measurements predicted. Three full orbits over eighteen years made Ulysses the longest ESA-operated mission at end of life; operations ended 30 June 2009. Wallimilist renders Ulysses with white dish antenna, gold body, active Sun and Jupiter in one scene, polar-pass arch kicker, and navy ULYSSES title exactly as the master PNG dictates — STS-41 deployment footer, shuttle launch line, and curator copy on out-of-ecliptic heliophysics.