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Limits RegistryNASA's Dawn orbited the giant asteroid Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012, then used its ion engines to travel to the dwarf planet Ceres, entering orbit on 6 March 2015 — the first spacecraft to orbit two destinations beyond Earth. It remains in orbit around Ceres after running out of fuel in 2018.
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NASA's Dawn orbited the giant asteroid Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012, then used its ion engines to travel to the dwarf planet Ceres, entering orbit on 6 March 2015 — the first spacecraft to orbit two destinations beyond Earth. It remains in orbit around Ceres after running out of fuel in 2018.
The year a single spacecraft first entered orbit around a second extraterrestrial body after leaving the first.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-TWO-BODY-ORBITER. First spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies. 2026.