August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... examination of just two of the largest, Ceres and Vesta. This is definitely rich hunting ground for nanosat missions ... asteroid belt though – Dawn arrived at its first target, Vesta, nearly four years after launch – so reliability and longevity...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... similar ion engine used on the Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. DART will use NASA’s newly developed Roll Out...manner, serving NASA’s 2007-2018 Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. While also performing GNC duties, Dawn’s AFC ...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
... belt between Mars and Jupiter: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. This truly interplanetary spaceship first explored ...the giant protoplanet Vesta in 2011-2012, and has been in orbit around...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... that asteroids formed at their current locations. This raised a conundrum for the coexistence of the dry asteroid Vesta and the wet asteroid Ceres in the same neighbourhood. Extended assay of the main belt thanks to extensive...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
..., thus making them fully appropriable (‘smaller’ was defined as up to around 600 km, which is the size of the asteroid Vesta, the largest in the solar system). According to the 2017 Law, no space resources mission can be performed without...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
.... The research, by Pasquale Tricarico, a senior scientist at PSI and a participating scientist on the Dawn mission for both Vesta and Ceres, also suggests that the albedo of asteroids studied to date, in the size range between 200...
