Status
Success
Dawn
Launch Time
Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:34 UTC
Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:34 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Dawn
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.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 750.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
2007
46th orbital launch attempt
United Launch Alliance
8th mission
7th mission of 2007
7th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission
Delta II
131st mission
5th mission of 2007
129th successful mission
76th consecutive successful mission