19 September
1988: On 19 September 1988, Israel launched its first satellite, 'Ofeq-1' on board a Shavit rocket from the Negev Desert, becoming the ninth country to launch a rocket into space.
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1873: On 20 September 1873, Giovanni Battista Donati died.
An Italian astronomer, Donati was the first to observe the spectrum of a comet (Comet 1864 II on 5 August 1864). This observation indicated correctly that comet tails contain luminous gas and do not shine merely by reflected sunlight.
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18 September
2003: On 18 September 2003, the last preparations for ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft were made in Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to make it ready for its launch the following ...
17 September
1789: On 17 September 1789, Sir William Herschel, the German-born British astronomer discovered Saturn's moon Mimas.The surface of Mimas is dominated by an impact crater 130 kilometres across (almost one ...
16 September
1662: On 16 September 1662 there was a solar eclipse, witnessed in Derby, England, by a sixteen-year-old boy called John Flamsteed.Flamsteed's interest in astronomy was stirred by this eclipse, and ...
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