NEWS & EVENTS
Dawn Launch Pierces Morning Sky
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+ Enlarge Image Credit: NASA |
September 27, 2007--The strongest Delta II rocket lights its main engine and nine solid-fueled boosters--each having a four-foot wide nozzle--to catapult it towards the asterorid belt. Dawn will fly by Mars on its way to Vesta, and then ignite its ion engines again to go to Ceres.
