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1943/1967: On 15 July 1943, Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born. In 1967, she celebrated her 24th birthday by discovering the first pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends ...
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2000: On 16 July 2000, the first pair of the ESA Cluster flotilla blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Cluster is a collection of four spacecraft flying in formation around Earth, relaying the most detailed ever information about how the solar wind affects our planet in three dimensions. The solar wind (the perpetual stream of subatomic particles given out by the Sun) can damage communications satellites and power stations on Earth.
The second pair of Cluster satellites was launched on 19 August 2000, also from Baikonur.
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14 July
1965: On 14 July 1965, Mariner 4 flew past Mars, making the first close-up photographs of another planet. The pictures, played back from a small tape recorder over a long ...
13 July
1995: On 13 July 1995, the NASA spacecraft Galileo released a probe towards Jupiter that was to become the first Earth probe to penetrate the atmosphere of any of the ...
12 July
2000: On 12 July 2000, ESA's Cluster mission was rolled out to its launch pad. Shortly after sunrise, the doors of the Launch Vehicle Integration Hall in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, opened, ...
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