27 June
1767: On 27 June 1767, Alexis Bouvard was born.Bouvard was a French astronomer and director of the Observatoire de Paris, who is noted for discovering eight comets and writing Tables ...
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1965: On 28 June 1965, the first commerical transatlantic telephone conversation via a satellite took place using Early Bird I. Positioned to serve the Atlantic Ocean region, Early Bird provided a communications service between North America and Western Europe. It had capacity for 240 voice circuits or one black and white TV channel.
It exceeded its planned 18-month life by two years. It was later renamed as Intelsat I.
By 1 July 1969, three Intelsat satellites in geostationary orbit provided full global coverage. Only 19 days after Intelsat III became operational, Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew made their historic first landing on the Moon, watched by 500 million people back on Earth, the signals available to every part of Earth for the first time.
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26 June
1730: On 26 June 1730, Charles Messier was born.Messier was a French astronomer who discovered fifteen comets. He was the first to compile a systematic catalogue of 'M objects.' - ...
25 June
1998: On 25 June 1998, during routine maintenance operations, ground controllers lost contact with the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft. The satellite went into Emergency Sun Re-acquisition (ESR) mode. The ESR mode ...
24 June
1975: On 24 June 1975 a Moon tremor, detected by the Lunar Seismic Network, was caused by a strike of Taurid meteors. Seismometers had been left on the Moon's surface ...
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