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NASA’s once-canceled Dawn mission to visit a pair of asteroids has been reinstated following a mission review, space agency officials said Monday.
NASA initially canceled the Dawn mission, which calls for an ion-powered spacecraft to visit two large asteroids, earlier this month — only to reverse that decision, which drew ire and opposition from planetary scientists at this month’s 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas.
“We revisited a number of technical and financial challenges and the work being done to address them,” NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden said in a statement. “Our review determined the project team has made substantive progress … we have confidence the mission will succeed.” The Dawn mission was approved in 2001 as part of NASA’s low-cost Discovery mission program. The mission plan called for the spacecraft to visit Vesta and Ceres, two of the...
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