News tagged with dawn
Does Asteroid Vesta have a moon?
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on Vesta, and from now until the ion-powered spacecraft goes into orbit in mid-July, every picture of the giant asteroid will be the best one ever taken. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Dawn nears start of year-long stay at giant asteroid
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early ...
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Jun 24, 2011 |
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The faces of Vesta (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images of the asteroid show the first surface structures and give a preview of the Dawn mission's coming months.
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Jun 24, 2011 |
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Dawn spacecraft captures video of asteroid approach (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Dawn spacecraft approaches protoplanet Vesta
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn mission to the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which launched in September 2007, is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 ...
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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Dawn captures first image of nearing asteroid
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to achieve orbit around Vesta on ...
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May 11, 2011 |
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Dawn probe reaches milestone approaching asteroid Vesta
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has reached its official approach phase to the asteroid Vesta and will begin using cameras for the first time to aid navigation for an expected July 16 orbital encounter. ...
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May 03, 2011 |
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NASA's new ion engine ready for missions in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A small robotic surveyor arrives to explore a near-Earth asteroid. Another robotic spacecraft is returning to Earth with a pristine comet surface sample. Meanwhile, a robotic explorer is approaching ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Dawn approaches asteroid Vesta
After three and a half years years of thrusting silently through the void, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on the threshold of a new world. It's deep in the asteroid belt, less than 4 months from giant asteroid ...
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid?
(PhysOrg.com) -- On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to begin ...
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Mar 30, 2011 |
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Dawn opens its eyes, checks its instruments
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a hibernation of about six months, the framing cameras on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft have again ventured a look into the stars. The spacecraft also powered up its visible and infrared ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Dawn gets Vesta target practice (w/ Video)
There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Countdown to Vesta
Let the countdown begin. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than one year away from giant asteroid Vesta.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 20, 2010 |
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Engineers Assess Dawn's Reaction Wheel
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...
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Jun 30, 2010 |
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Dawn Spacecraft Fires Past Record for Speed Change (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deep in the heart of the asteroid belt, on its way to the first of the belt's two most massive inhabitants, NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has eclipsed the record for velocity change ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 08, 2010 |
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