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Dawn Completes Primary Mission

By Elisabeth Landau | Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jul 1, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Dawn Completes Primary Mission

On June 30, just in time for the global celebration known as Asteroid Day, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft completes its primary mission. The mission exceeded all expectations originally set for its exploration of protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. The historic mission is the first to orbit two extraterrestrial solar system targets, and the first to […]

Dawn in Excellent Shape One Month After Ceres Arrival

By Elizabeth Landau | Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Apr 8, 2015   Science/Education  

Dawn in Excellent Shape One Month After Ceres Arrival

Since its capture by the gravity of dwarf planet Ceres on March 6, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has performed flawlessly, continuing to thrust with its ion engine as planned. The thrust, combined with Ceres’ gravity, is gradually guiding the spacecraft into a circular orbit around the dwarf planet. All of the spacecraft’s systems and instruments are […]

Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres

By Elizabeth Landau | JPL on Dec 30, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched in 2007 and is scheduled to enter Ceres orbit in March 2015. Dawn recently emerged from solar conjunction, in which the spacecraft is on the […]

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