Dawn Passes Flight Readiness Review

Thursday, July 05 2007 @ 05:45 PM EDT

Edited by: Kandy Ringer

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On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II first stage at left waits for additional solid rocket boosters in the mobile service tower to be mated with those already attached. The Delta is the launch vehicle of the Dawn spacecraft.
On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II first stage at left waits for additional solid rocket boosters in the mobile service tower to be mated with those already attached. The Delta is the launch vehicle of the Dawn spacecraft.

Image Courtesy: NASA/Jim Grossmann (2007-06-11)
For the image shown above in a larger size, see On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II first stage at left waits for additional solid rocket boosters in the mobile service tower to be mated with those already attached. The Delta is the launch vehicle of the Dawn spacecraft.

More NASA images are available in BBSNews NASA Photos.

NASA via BBSNews - 2007-07-05 -- The flight readiness review was completed on Tuesday. All technical issues were cleared.

Mission: Dawn
Launch Pad: 17-B
Launch Vehicle: Delta II 7925-H
Launch Date: July 7, 2007
Launch Time: 4:09:31 - 4:36:22 p.m. EDT

Mission managers will hold a teleconference on Wednesday to discuss the availability of telemetry assets. If it is determined there are sufficient aircraft and ship assets available, the team will proceed with propellant loading on Thursday.

Previous status reports are available on the Web.

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