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Dawn Opens its Eyes, Checks its Instruments
03.21.11 - In preparation for orbiting Vesta this summer, the spacecraft's camera system and other instruments have successfully awakened from hibernation.
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Dawn Gets Vesta Target Practice
03.10.11 - Practice mapping of Vesta produces an animation and still images that show scientists' best guess about the surface and shape of the giant asteroid.
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NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help From Hubble
10.08.10 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011.
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Engineers Assess Dawn's Reaction Wheel
06.29.10 - Engineers are studying the reaction wheels on NASA's Dawn spacecraft after automatic sensors detected excess friction building up in one of them and powered it off early on the morning of June 17, 2010.
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NASA's Dawn Fires Past Record for Speed Change
06.03.10 - NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has eclipsed the record for velocity change produced by a spacecraft's engines.
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Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good
11.13.09 - ASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.
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Dawn Finishes Mars Phase
02.26.09 - With Mars disappearing in its metaphorical rearview mirror, NASA's Dawn spacecraft's next stop is the asteroid belt and the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Dawn Glides Into New Year
11.20.08 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled.
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Dawn Tests Ion Engine
10.09.07 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend.
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enroute to Shed Light on Asteroid Belt
09.27.07 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off Thursday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Launched
09.27.07 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft began its 3 billion kilometer (1.7 billion mile) journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids Thursday.
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Dawn Is a 'Go' for Asteroid Belt
09.25.07 - Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Sept. 27 liftoff from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Dawn mission.
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Dawn Launching on Delta II Sept. 26 to Explore Planetary Mysteries
09.14.07 - Launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 26, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch window is 7:25 to 7:54 a.m. EDT.
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Dawn Moves to Launch Pad
09.11.07 - The Dawn spacecraft completed the 25-kilometer (15-mile) journey from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to Pad-17B of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:10 a.m. EDT today.
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Dawn Rescheduled for September Launch
07.07.07 - The move will protect launch preparations for the Phoenix mission to Mars.
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Media Teleconference to Discuss Dawn Mission
06.26.07
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Dawn Solar Array Repaired
06.18.07
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Dawn Media Opportunity Rescheduled to June 20
06.13.07 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft, targeted to launch aboard a Delta II rocket on July 7, will be the focus of a media opportunity at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, at Astrotech in Titusville, Fla.
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Dawn Damage Not Expected to Delay Mission
06.14.07
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Only Five More Days for Your Name to Rise With the Dawn
10.30.06 - NASA's campaign to send the nom de plumes of people from around the world into the heart of the asteroid belt ends Sat., Nov. 4.