NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta
Posted by brandoniswrite on July 18, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, for a year before departing for a second destination, a dwarf planet named Ceres, in July 2012. Observations will provide [...]
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Juno’s Solar Cells Ready to Light Up Jupiter Mission
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft is going to Jupiter powered by an electrical source seldom deployed in deep space: solar arrays. Commonly used by satellites orbiting Earth and working in the inner solar system, solar arrays are typically set aside for missions beyond the asteroid belt in favor of generators powered by radioactive isotopes. For Juno, however, [...]
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