40 Years In The Deserr: NASA Launches Dawn Probe to Asteroid Belt

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta has been launched.

It's the first mission to renedez vous with more than one body, and an ambitious application of ion drive technology.

For more on the tech, see here

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