March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... the ship smoothly into its new port, the gravity of Ceres itself will help tug Dawn in. Space strike 1. Dawn’s first extended picture of Ceres was only slightly larger than this image of Vesta taken on 3 May...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... at is still unknown. However the outlook doesn’t look particularly good. “High-resolution gravity data obtained during Dawn’s extended mission revealed an abundance of dense material — that is, salts and rock particles — in the lower crust of Ceres...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
... spots on Ceres, which have captivated both the Dawn science team and the public, reveal evidence of ...Ceres today," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn mission. Dawn is still actively studying Ceres and it is set to descend...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... stuck in an upward spiral of cost, waste and toxicity; that was unscalable and unsustainable, Josh is helping bring Dawn’s highly reusable suborbital spaceplane and high-power, sustainable propulsion products to market in a bid to change this. Josh...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...which orbited and returned tiny pieces of asteroid Itokawa, and NASA’s Dawn mission, which orbited asteroid 4 Vesta. At about 540 m ...and thus it is the first protoplanet we have visited. Dawn also confirmed that Vesta is the parent body of the ...
27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
...orbit around Ceres already under its belt, NASA's Dawn mission has already thrown up a few surprises about ...as a potential answer to the re-moulding of its surface. Before Dawn even arrived at Ceres, remote sensing from Earth had already determined ...
