6 October
1990: On 6 October 1990, the ESA/NASA Ulysses spacecraft was launched on board US Space Shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral, USA.Ulysses is a ESA/NASA mission to study the poles of ...
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2002: On 7 October 2002, the Integral logo was fixed to the side of the Proton rocket due to launch ESA's Integral mission later in the month.
Located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, final operations were carried out on Integral's fairing on 5 October. This included mechanical operations such as filling up access holes, fixing venting ports and some electrical checks. Now that the Integral spacecraft was within the fairing, the Proton launch authorities were driving the schedule of activities, according to their proven record of timely launches.
The Integral logo, brought over from ESTEC, was fixed on 7 October.
The top section of the rocket was lifted on 8 October by two cranes and loaded onto a railcar for transport to the Launcher Integration Building.
1990: On 7 October 1990, the fastest escape velocity from Earth was achieved by the ESA/NASA Ulysses spacecraft after deployment from the US Space Shuttle Discovery. The speed measured 54 614 kilometres per hour. Ulysses was en route to an orbit around the poles of the Sun via a fly-by of Jupiter.
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5 October
1923: On 5 October 1923, the US astronomer Edwin Hubble identified the first Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda galaxy. This proved that the galaxy was not part of the ...
4 October
1957: On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, about the size of a football and taking about 98 minutes to orbit Earth ...
3 October
1932: On 3 October 1932, Maximilian (Max) Wolf died.Wolf was a German astronomer who founded and directed the Königstuhl Observatory. He used wide-field photography to study the Milky Way and ...
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