19 October
1910: On 19 October 1910, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born.Chandrasekhar was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who (with William A. Fowler) won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for formulating the currently ...
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1896: On 20 October 1896, Félix Tisserand died.
Tisserand was a French astronomer especially noted for his textbook Traité de mécanique céleste ('Treatise on Celestial Mechanics'). This work, an update of Pierre-Simon Laplace's work on the same subject, is still referred to by current writers of celestial mechanics books.
From 1892 until his death he was director of l'Obseratoire de Paris (Paris Observatory)
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18 October
2000: On 18 October 2000, new solar panels for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) arrived to be tested at the European Space Agency's ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. ...
17 October
2002: On 17 October 2002, ESA launched the Integral mission. Integral is the first space observatory that can simultaneously observe objects in gamma rays, X-rays, and visible light. Its principal ...
16 October
2002: On 16 October 2002, the countdown for the launch of the Integral mission started at 22:41 GMT in ESOC, ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. To make the ...
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