Dawn

Dawn — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Dawn in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

Powered by whisper-quiet ion engines, Dawn was the first craft ever to orbit two different worlds: the giant asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.

Launched

27 Sep 2007

Status

Mission ended 2018 — silent at Ceres

Explore Dawn in 3D

Explore Dawn along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.