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Dawn

(Discovery 9)
(explorer spacecraft sent to asteroids Vesta and Ceres)

Dawn was a NASA space mission launched in 2007 to observe the asteroids, Vesta and Ceres, using an ion engine for the interplanetary flights as well as maneuvering in the vicinity of the asteroids. The mission had problems but the spacecraft successfully orbited and observed Vesta in 2011, reached Ceres in 2015, which it observed until the mission was terminated in 2018. It remains in orbit around Ceres. Instruments include:


(spacecraft,asteroids,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/dawn/overview/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/dawn/

Referenced by pages:
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Ceres
ion engine

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