Recordeddatespace
Dawn enters orbit around Vesta
Orbited the belt’s second-most-massive body for fourteen months before departing for Ceres — the first craft ever to leave one orbit for another body’s. Encounter class: orbit insertion.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
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Evidence
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Dawn mission record
Launch and the Vesta and Ceres orbit-insertion dates.
NASA · Partly verified
NASA Dawn mission archive pages
Recorded on Dawn
- Dawn enters orbit around Vesta
- Dawn enters orbit around Ceres — the first dwarf planet orbited
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