8 September
1967: On On 8 September 1967, ESOC was founded.ESOC is the mission control centre of the European Space Agency, based in Darmstadt, Germany. It is responsible for the operation of ...
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1789: On 9 September 1789, William Cranch Bond was born.
Bond was an American astronomer who, with his son George Phillips Bond, discovered Hyperion - the eighth satellite of Saturn. He also discovered an inner ring of Saturn called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
In 1815 he was sent by Harvard College to Europe to visit existing observatories and gather data preliminary to prepare for the building of an observatory at Harvard. In 1839 the observatory was founded and Bond became its first director.
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7 September
1914: On 7 September 1914, James Alfred Van Allen was born.American physicist Van Allen's discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, two zones of radiation encircling Earth, brought about new ...
6 September
2000: On 6 September 2000, the ESA spacecraft, Ulysses, returned to the Sun's south pole for the second time in its mission. The spacecraft passed 70° south, shortly before the ...
5 September
1977: On 5 September 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 from Cape Canaveral on board a Titan-Centaur rocket. Between them, Voyager 1 and 2 explored all the giant planets of the ...
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