27 October
1867: On 27 October 1867, John Wrottesley died.Wrottesley was an English astronomer who published The Catalogue of the RA of 1318 Stars. Wrottesley became a founder member of the Royal ...
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1971: On 28 October 1971, the United Kingdom became the sixth nation to launch a satellite. The Prospero satellite, also known as the X3, was launched into orbit by a Black Arrow rocket from Woomera, Australia.
Its mission was technology experimentation; it tested solar cells. Prospero was the only satellite launched by a British rocket. The Black Arrow was a three-stage rocket, 13 m high. The development of the space launcher Black Arrow began in 1964 under direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In July 1971, the British government decided to drop the national programme and, in 1975, helped set up the European Space Agency.
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26 October
1959: On 26 October 1959, the USSR released a photo of the far side of the Moon taken by the Lunik III probe. It was the first time anybody had ...
25 October
1877: On 25 October 1877, Henry Norris Russell was born.Russell was an American astronomer and astrophysicist who showed the relationship between a star's brightness and its spectral type, in what ...
24 October
1851: On 24 October 1851, British astronomer William Lassell discovered Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus.Like most of the other Uranian moons Ariel is named after a Shakespearean character. The ...
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