Dawn Is Dead: NASA's Pioneering Asteroid-Belt Mission Runs Out of Fuel

Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 14:20 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Dawn spacecraft — which orbited the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, during its long and accomplished life — has run out of fuel and died, agency officials announced today (Nov. 1).

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