A journey in space and time: Status of the Dawn mission

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Aug 2007

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European Planetary Science Congress 2007, Proceedings of a conference held 20-24 August, 2007 in Potsdam, Germany. Online at ht

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Dawn is a Discovery-class NASA mission to explore the two most massive asteroids, 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres, by rendezvousing with and orbiting them for 7 and 5 months respectively. The objective of Dawn is to journey in space and time to understand the conditions and processes at the beginning of the solar system. Dawn carries a German framing camera, an Italian visible and IR mapping spectrometer, a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer and a radiometric tracking system for gravity studies. Originally scheduled for launch in June 2007, its launch will now be in September 2007 after a series of incidents in the preparations of the launch vehicle and in the acquisition of downrange telemetry.

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