3 August
1998: On 3 August contact was re-established with the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft following six weeks of silence. Signals sent through the DSN station at Canberra, Australia, were answered at 22:51 ...
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1969: On 4 August 1969, the US Mariner 7 encountered Mars (Mariner 6 had arrived a few days earlier). The Mariner 6 and 7 spacecraft were designed to fly over the equator and southern hemisphere of Mars.
The two spacecraft later returned a combined total of 143 approach pictures of the planet and 55 close-up pictures. The spacecraft also studied the Martian atmosphere and profiled its chemical composition. Closest approach to Mars for both spacecraft was approximately 3550 kilometres.
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2 August
2000: In August 2000, the second pair of ESA’s Cluster spacecraft was being prepared for launch at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.On the 2 August 2000, the spacecraft were ...
1 August
On 1 August every year, the meteor shower known as the Alpha Capricornids reaches its peak. This is a meteor shower which lasts from 15 July until 11 September. The ...
31 July
1999: On 31 July 1999, NASA's Lunar Prospector plunged into a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's south pole. The crash ending the successful mission also deposited 28 g of ...
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