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Dawn's Early Light
The Dawn's Early Light is a newsletter containing information about the mission
and research opportunities for members of the science community.
Articles & Awards:
2002-08-05
An article for the Asteroid, Comets, Meteors Conference has been prepared describing
the Dawn Mission. A pdf file containing this paper is available.
2001-12-21
Dawn was selected on December 21, 2001 as one of two awardees
for NASA's Discovery
Program. Dawn will be NASA's first purely scientific mission
using solar electric propulsion (SEP), an advanced technology
that will enable many future aspects of solar system exploration
and that has been validated for flight by the New Millennium
program's Deep Space 1 mission.
The material on this website was prepared from information
gathered for the Concept Study Report. Since the Step 1
proposal NASA has changed the funding profile available
for the Discovery program necessitating changes in launch
dates and other mission characteristics. The science objectives
have not changed from Step 1.
For the full Dawn press package of mission information,
click here.
Additional News Links:
+
JPL 12/21/2001 Press Release
+ NASA 12/21/2001
Press Release
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February 16, 2001 SPACE.com article
+ View graphs - March 11
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