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Dwayne Brown
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov
George Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
george.h.diller@nasa.gov
DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011
david.c.agle@jpl.nasa.gov
RELEASE: 2007-099
"From here, the only way to go is up," said Dawn project manager Keyur
Patel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We are
looking forward to putting some space between Dawn and Mother Earth
and making some space history."
Now that the Dawn payload is atop the Delta II 7925-H, a heavier-lift
model of the standard Delta II that uses larger solid rocket
boosters, a final major test will be conducted. This integrated test
of the Delta II and Dawn working together will simulate all events as
they will occur on launch day, but without propellants aboard the
vehicle.
The Sept. 26 launch window is 4:25 to 4:54 a.m. PDT (7:25 to 7:54 a.m.
EDT). Should the launch be postponed 24 hours for any reason, the
launch window will extend from 4:20 to 4:49 a.m. PDT (7:20 to 7:49
a.m. EDT). For a 48-hour postponement, the launch window will be from
4:14 to 4:43 a.m. PDT (7:14 to 7:43 a.m EDT). Dawn's launch period
closes Oct. 15.
The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by JPL for the NASA
Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The University of
California Los Angeles is responsible for overall Dawn mission
science. Other scientific partners include Los Alamos National
Laboratory, New Mexico; German Aerospace Center, Berlin; Max Planck
Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg, Germany; and Italian
National Institute of Astrophysics, Palermo. Orbital Sciences
Corporation of Dulles, Va., designed and built the Dawn spacecraft.
The NASA Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center and the
United Launch Alliance are responsible for the launch of the Delta
II.
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov
For more information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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