30 June
1908: On 30 June 1908, over the skies of Tunguska in Russia, a meteorite no less than 50 metres in diameter travelling at approximately 100 000 kilometres per hour penetrated ...
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1999: On 1 July 1999, ESA's de-activated Giotto spacecraft performed its second Earth fly-by, 14 years since its launch on 2 July 1985 and five years after its previous return to Earth's vicinity on 2 July 1990. It flew past Earth at a distance of 220 000 kilometres (just over half the Earth-Moon distance).
Giotto operations were officially terminated on 23 July 1992, after completion of final orbit adjustments and configuration of the spacecraft for its third hibernation. The spacecraft had about 15 kilograms of propellant left, barely enough to adjust the orbit for one last Earth fly-by.
The fly-by coincided with a press briefing in London about ESA's next cometary mission, Rosetta.
1770: On 1 July 1770, Lexell's comet passed a mere 2.3 million kilometres from Earth, less than nine times the distance to the Moon. This is one of Earth’s closest known near-misses by a comet.
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29 June
1995: On 29 June 1995, the US Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir for a mission which lasted until 4 July 1995.The docking tested a special ...
28 June
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 ...
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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