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On this day in 1966 – April 3rd – the Soviet spacecraft Luna 10 was inserted into orbit around the Moon.
It was the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon, and the first human-made object to orbit a body beyond the Earth.
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On this day in 2014 – April 3rd – ESA satellite Sentinel 1-A was launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana, the first in the Copernicus EU programme.
Copernicus is the world's largest Earth observation programme. It monitors many aspects of the environment.
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On this day in 1966 – April 3rd – the Soviet spacecraft Luna 10 was inserted into orbit around the Moon.
It was the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon, and the first human-made object to orbit a body beyond the Earth.
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On this day in 1809 – April 4th – American astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Peirce was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
He graduated from Harvard University where he also obtained his M.A. Peirce was appointed Harvard’s first Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. He played a key role in the development of the Harvard College Observatory and carried out a great deal of important observational work, including helping to determine the orbital path of the newly discovered planet Neptune.
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On this day in 1914 – April 4th – Czech astronomer Zdeněk Kopal was born in Litomyšl, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
In 1938 he studied in England at Cambridge under Arthur Eddington, and later that year accepted a teaching post at Harvard College Observatory. In order to ensure good quality maps of the Moon for the Apollo program, Kopal organised a USAF-funded programme designed to map the Moon from the Earth using high resolution imagery. He was head of astronomy at the University of Manchester for 30 years and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science from its foundation in 1968 until his death in 1993.
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On this day in 1622 – April 5th – Italian mathematician and scientist Vincenzo Viviani was born in Florence.
From 1639 until 1642, he was a student, secretary and assistant of Galileo, who was under house arrest. In 1657, Viviani became a co-founder of the Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment), an early scientific society which came into being three years before the Royal Society was founded in England.
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On this day in 1965 – April 6th – Intelsat I became the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
It was nicknamed Early Bird from the proverb "The early bird catches the worm." Although the satellite remains in orbit, the last time it was activated was in 1990.
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On this day in 1991 – April 7th – the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) was deployed by astronauts on the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
It was the second of NASA's "Great Observatories" and it transformed our knowledge of the high-energy sky, producing the first ever all-sky survey in gamma rays.
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On this day in 2001 – April 7th – NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter was launched.
The orbiter was designed to look for evidence of past or present water and ice, as well as study the planet's geology and radiation environment. Its primary mission was meant to last 32 months, but it's still in service, and holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth.
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On this day in 1793 – April 8th – German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke was born in Driesen, Brandenburg.
Hencke discovered five variable stars and carried out much useful work on the general improvement of star charts. He also discovered the asteroid Astraea (1845), and Hebe (1847). They were the first new asteroids known since the discovery of Vesta in 1807.
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