17 October
2002: On 17 October 2002, ESA launched the Integral mission. Integral is the first space observatory that can simultaneously observe objects in gamma rays, X-rays, and visible light. Its principal ...
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2000: On 18 October 2000, new solar panels for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) arrived to be tested at the European Space Agency's ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The solar panels passed their test and were attached to the HST on a later servicing mission.
ESTEC's Large Space Simulator (LSS) chamber is the only known facility in the world that can provide the background environment necessary for high-temperature measurements while also being large enough to accommodate one of the HST's massive solar array wings.
1989: On 18 October 1989, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was launched.
The Galileo mission was designed to help scientists learn much more about the planet Jupiter and its moons.
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16 October
2002: On 16 October 2002, the countdown for the launch of the Integral mission started at 22:41 GMT in ESOC, ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. To make the ...
15 October
1997: On 15 October 1997, the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission was launched. It was the first spacecraft sent to land on a world in the outer Solar System - on ...
14 October
1968: On 14 October 1968, the first live telecast from Earth orbit was transmitted from Apollo 7.NASA astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham showed views of the inside ...
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