Dawn
NASA · launched 2007 · ended 2018
Orbited Vesta, then Ceres, where it remains.
Right now · as of
Interplanetary cruise
344 million km (2.3 AU) from Earth; a signal takes 19 min 7 s
397 million km (2.66 AU) from the Sun, moving at 18.6 km/s relative to the Sun
Open in 3DThe flight
September 27, 2007
Launched on Delta II 7925H from Cape Canaveral SLC-17B
February 18, 2009
Flies past Mars, 3,941 km away
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Dawn (spacecraft)
NASA orbiter mission to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres (2007–2018)
Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment of that mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program—Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011, and completed a 14-month survey mission before leaving for Ceres in late 2012.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space probe
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- September 27, 2007
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925H
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-17B
- Mission ended
- 2018
- International designator
- 2007-043A
- 3D model
- NASA/Brian E. Kumanchik