Out of fuel, NASA's Dawn spacecraft ends its mission to study the asteroid belt
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 21:20
in Astronomy & Space
NASA’s Dawn mission to explore Vesta and Ceres, the two largest worlds in the solar system’s main asteroid belt, has come to a close. The spacecraft has run out of hydrazine, the chemical fuel it needs to orient itself in the vacuum of space, NASA officials said Thursday. That means it can no longer...