14 August
2003: On 14 August 2003, while the ESA SMART-1 spacecraft was on the launchpad in Kourou, French Guiana, the Flight Operations team at ESOC mission control in Damstadt, Germany, was ...
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1993: On 15 August 1993, after more than three years of efficient and successful operations, communications with ESA's scientific satellite Hipparcos were terminated.
The Hipparcos satellite, a purely European undertaking, and the first space experiment dedicated to the highly accurate measurements of star positions, distances and space motions, was launched in August 1989. Targeted for an operational lifetime of two and a half years, more than three years of high-quality star measurements were eventually accumulated, and all of the original scientific goals of the mission fully accomplished.
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13 August
1596: On 13 August 1596, David Fabricus discovered Mira, the first pulsating (and second variable) star. In 1603, it was seen, measured and cataloged by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria ...
12 August
On 12 August, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower occurs, when skywatchers can expect to see possibly 80-100 meteors per hour if skies are clear.The Perseids are visible between ...
11 August
1999: Up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia witnessed the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century.The phenomenon began over the Atlantic, a few hundred miles east ...
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