Dawn mission was muted to study two of the solar system’s largest main-belt asteroids — Vesta and Ceres. But, according to a news report, NASA has sounded the death knell for it. It was on Thursday after a US congressional hearing on NASA’s science budget, Mary Cleave, the space agency’s associate administrator for science, cancelled the mission.



This is reported by NASAWatch.com — a website run by former NASA employee Keith Cowing. The decision came more than a month after the agency was expected to complete an extensive review of the mission’s progress. It was on October 2005, NASA ordered Dawn managers to stop work on the mission - the reasons being excessive technical problems and a budget overrun.



Via: New Scientist