Delta II Heavy launched NASA's Dawn spacecraft on an ion-propelled mission to orbit and study the two most massive bodies in the asteroid belt, protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Delta II 7925H-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 27 September 2007, 11:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925H-9.5
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2007-043
- Launches in 2007
- 46th of 68
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