The Delta II Heavy carrying the Dawn spacecraft is revealed at Launch Pad 17B as the launch tower rolls away. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, during a single mission. Vesta and Ceres lie in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is also NASA's first purely scientific mission powered by three solar electric ion propulsion engines.
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September 27, 2007
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