[meteorite-list] Dawn Update - April 27, 2007

[Ron Baalke]

04.27.07

George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468

STATUS REPORT: ELV-042707

EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT

Mission: Dawn 
Launch Pad: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. 
Launch Vehicle: Delta II 7925-H 
Launch Date: Targeted for June 30, 2007 
Launch Time: 15:13:15 p.m. EDT 

The "command and data handling" portion of the Comprehensive 
Performance Test was completed on April 19. Additional comprehensive 
performance tests are in progress. Thermal control system, attitude 
control sub-system and fault protection testing continues. 

Dawn's mission will mark the first time a spacecraft will orbit two 
planetary bodies on a single voyage: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf 
planet Ceres. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is managed by NASA's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center and the United 
Launch Alliance are responsible for the launch of the Delta II.

Previous status reports are available on the Web at:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2007 

	
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