Dawn Mission Pushed Back to September
One of my favourite upcoming missions is NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, set to go into orbit around two different asteroids. It was originally supposed to blast off this month, but mission planners have decided to push the launch back to September to minimize any potential disruptions to NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission, due for launch in early August.
I actually did an article on Dawn about a year ago. So instead of repeating that here, I’ll just link you to the article.
Original Source:NASA
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