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Dawn spacecraft

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T+02:39.5 Jettison Air-Lit Solid rocket motors (SRM) into the Atlantic Ocean.

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T+01:19.0 Three remaining Air-Lit Solid rocket motor (SRM) Ignition

T+01:20.5 Jettison ground-start Solid rocket motors into the Atlantic Ocean.

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The six ground-start Solid rocket motor (SRM) Burnout

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All systems nominal

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Liftoff !
The Delta 2-Heavy rocket with the Dawn spacecraft has left the launch pad!

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No weather violations.
The launch is still on schedule

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	The United Launch Alliance Delta 2-Heavy rocket, equipped with larger solid-fuel boosters, is still on scheduled to lift off at 11:20 GMT. Forecasters are predicting a 60 percent chance of acceptable weather conditions.

-- Edited by Blobrana at 00:04, 2007-09-27

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Preparing Dawn for Launch

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NASA video simulation of DAWN, a robotic mission to explore the main-belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres. It is scheduled to launch September 2007, and arrive at Vesta and Ceres in 2011 and 2015, respectively.

DAWN Asteroid Mission

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