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		Rocket: Delta 2-Heavy Payload: Dawn Date: Sept. 27, 2007 Time: 7:20-7:49 a.m. EDT (1120-1149 GMT) Site: Pad 17B, Cape Canaveral, Florida Mission Status Center Daily launch windows Launch events timeline Ground track map The Dawn spacecraft Dawn's science objectives Targets: Vesta and Ceres Delta 2 rocket info The pre-launch flow Launch Complex 17 Our Delta archive

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The Dawn asteroid probe launches at sunrise
BY SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: September 27, 2007

The United Launch Alliance Delta 2-Heavy rocket blasted off at 7:34 a.m. this morning from Cape Canaveral. The ascent occurred just minutes after sunrise, sending NASA's Dawn spacecraft on a three-billion-mile journey to the uncharted worlds of Vesta and Ceres in the heart of the asteroid belt.

Photo credit: Chris Miller/Spaceflight Now

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