NASA's Dawn mission is about to end




11 September 2018 Current Affairs: Dawn, NASA's only robot exploring the Asteroid Belt, is about to die. The spacecraft is likely to run out of a key fuel knwon as hydrazine -- which keeps it oriented and in communication with Earth -- between September and October.

Launched in September 2007, Dawn was majorly tasked to study two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt Vesta and Ceres.