Dawn

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

11:34:00

Thursday September 27, 2007

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Mission Details

Dawn

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Dawn is a space probe launched by NASA with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, the first spacecraft to visit either Vesta or Ceres, and the first to visit a dwarf planet, arriving at Ceres in March 2015, a few months before New Horizons flew by Pluto in July 2015.

Heliocentric Orbit

1 Payload

750 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Delta II 7925H

Active 2003 to 2007

United Launch Alliance logo

Agency

ULA

Rocket

Height: 38.1m

Payload to Orbit

GTO: 2,171 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,398 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.9m

Height: 8.49m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

9

Launch Site

SLC-17B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

20 days 2 hours

Stats

Delta II


131st

Mission

5th

Mission of 2007

United Launch Alliance


8th

Mission

7th

Mission of 2007

2007


46th

Orbital launch attempt