On 2006-11-01, the name of the school was listed in a database that was to be recorded onto a microchip.

A microchip was placed aboard the spacecraft accompanying it on its mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta. A participation certificate was issued to the school, as shown below.

Mission Participation Certificate dated 2006-11-01 was issued to the school. We are 1 of over 360,000 names.

*****     Dawn Mission: Home (JPL)     *****

Wikipedia (Dawn) (Ceres (dwarf planet)) (4 Vesta)

Planetary Society

Dawn was launched by a Delta 2925 vehicle from pad 17-A Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida.
The Delta 2925, previously known as the Delta II 7925

Our previous space missions were
Mars - Mer-A & Mer-B
Deep Impact
New Horizons
Phoenix
Kaguya (Selene)

Our next space mission is Kepler

DELTA II Launch Vehicle

The Delta II is an expendable launch, medium-lift vehicle that is primarily used to launch Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites into orbit, providing navigational data to military and civilian users. Additionally, the Delta II launches civil and commercial payloads into low-earth, polar, geo-transfer and geosynchronous orbits.

The first Delta II was successfully launched 1989-02-14, at Cape Canaveral. There are two primary versions of the Delta II (6925 and 7925). The Delta 6925, the first version, carried the initial nine GPS satellites into orbit.

Specifications
Primary Function: Space lift vehicle
Launch Sites: Space Launch Complex 17, Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla.; Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
Builder: Boeing Company, Expendable Launch Systems
Thrust (at liftoff) : 3,110,264 Newtons
Height: 38.329 metres
Diameter: Fairing - 2.895 metres , Core - 2.438 metres
Weight: 231,872 kg

This page updated: Saturday, 2009-06-13