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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. [1] 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 ...
This is a list of NASA missions, ... Discovery 9 – Dawn, launched September 2007, completed – Vesta in 2011-2012, and Ceres in 2015-2018;
Dawn was the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first mission outside the Earth-moon system to orbit two distinct solar system targets. After orbiting Vesta for 14 months in 2011 and 2012, it arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015. Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
It was only just yesterday that NASA announced its Kepler space telescope had officially been declared dead, and now there's another long-running mission that has also met its demise. Today, NASA ...
The Polaris Dawn mission also marks the farthest any human has journeyed since the final Apollo mission in 1972 — and the farthest into space a woman has ever traveled.
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission attempted its first-ever commercial spacewalk early Thursday morning.. Four people donning new spacesuits opened their Crew Dragon spaceship to the vacuum of space ...
Dawn: NASA: 16 July 2011 – 5 September 2012 orbiter success first spacecraft to orbit two different celestial bodies; now orbiting Ceres: 2007-043A: 4179 Toutatis: Chang'e 2: CNSA: 13 December 2012 flyby success came within 3.2 km (2.0 mi) to Toutatis: 2010-050A: 2000 DP107: PROCYON: University of Tokyo / JAXA: 12 May 2016 [49] flyby failure
Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program.Launched 10 September 2024 as the 14th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman and his crew of three — Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — flew in an elliptic orbit that took them 1,400 kilometers ...