4 August
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 ...
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2000: On 5 August 2000, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the break up of Comet Linear 1999/S4.
This image gave astronomers a close-up look at what may be the smallest building blocks ever observed of cometary nuclei
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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 ...
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 ...
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