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 ...
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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 UT in the form of bursts of carrier signal lasting from 2 to 10 seconds.
Back in June 1998, after completing its nominal two-year mission in April, ground controllers lost contact with the SOHO spacecraft during routine maintenance operations, and the satellite went into Emergency Sun Reacquisition (ESR) mode.
When this happens, the spacecraft automatically tries to point itself towards the Sun again by firing its attitude control thrusters under the guidance of an on-board Sun sensor. Efforts to re-establish nominal operations did not succeed and telemetry was lost, not to be re-established for several weeks.
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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 ...
30 July
2003: On 30 July 2003, ESA's SMART-1 was lowered onto the cone-shaped adapter that would serve as its interface with the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The photo above shows the ...
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