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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
11:34:00
Thursday September 27, 2007
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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
Agency
ULARocket
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
131st
Mission
5th
Mission of 2007
8th
Mission
7th
Mission of 2007
46th
Orbital launch attempt