Has a space probe ever been sent out of the planetary plane?
So for example a probe is launched from earth, decelerated relative to
the earths rotation about the sun, then accelerated over the 'top' of
the sun, perpendicular to the plane of the planets.
Maybe that takes too much fuel so can't be done.
I am interested for the sake of verifying the isotropic nature of
space.
The polysigned model of spacetime suggests a line crossed with a plane
as a basis.
That could be interpreted as nonisotropic.
If I were to take that basis literally at a macro level it could
coincide with the disc effects at large scales.
It's a bit simplistic, but the basis does suggest a rotational plane.
-Tim

Timothy Golden http://www.BandTechnology.com wrote:
Has a space probe ever been sent out of the planetary plane?
So for example a probe is launched from earth, decelerated relative to
the earths rotation about the sun, then accelerated over the 'top' of
the sun, perpendicular to the plane of the planets.
Maybe that takes too much fuel so can't be done.
I am interested for the sake of verifying the isotropic nature of
space.
The polysigned model of spacetime suggests a line crossed with a plane
as a basis.
That could be interpreted as nonisotropic.
If I were to take that basis literally at a macro level it could
coincide with the disc effects at large scales.
It's a bit simplistic, but the basis does suggest a rotational plane.

The Uysses solar-polar probe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft)

-Mark Martin

FWIW One could use the gravity of a planet to alter the probe's orbit
outside the plane.

Yup. That's what they did with Ulysses.