This mini-Ceres was given AOs and then subjected to the various kinds of radiation you'd expect in interplanetary space near ...

The new year brings a new feature. On this date in space exploration history will bring you daily facts about the history of ...

Chinese launch startup Galactic Energy conducted its fourth sea launch early Thursday as China continued its recent high launch cadence. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 5:18 a.m.

He named it Ceres, after the patron goddess of Sicily ... So things stood for 65 years. Although Pluto's orbit was more elongated than the other planets' (and even crossed the orbit of Neptune ...

The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around the giant asteroid Ceres for more than a year. During that time, it has spotted features on this mysterious world ...

The Ceres 1's first sea-based launch took place in September 2023 off the coast of Shandong, placing four Tianqi satellites into space. That mission made Galactic Energy the first Chinese private ...

The engines' gentle thrust will slowly descend Dawn into an oval-shaped orbit around Ceres, bringing it 10 times closer than ever before. "Hold on, I'm going low!" the spacecraft's Twitter account ...

It rotates around its own axis in five hours and 20 minutes, and requires 3.6 Earth years to complete an orbit around the Sun ... astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before ...

From then on, we enter uncharted territory.” After a short approach phase, Dawn will swing into orbit around Ceres in March 2015. In the following months, the distance between the spacecraft and the ...

The Ceres 1's first sea-based launch took place ... to a 500-km sun synchronous orbit, or 350-kg payloads to a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 200 km.