Ceres

Body record

What the catalog records about Ceres

Body type

Dwarf planet

Orbits

Sun

Mean distance from the Sun

413,000,000 km

Position in the explorer

Computed from a committed ephemeris

Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.

Derived figures

Missions to Ceres

Committed missions

1

First launch

September 27, 2007

Latest launch

September 27, 2007

Concluded missions

1

Recorded a success

1

Success rate

100%

Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 0 of the 1 record are still active, leaving 1 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.

Who went

Agencies

JPL

1

NASA

1

A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 1.

What they did

Mission types

Flyby

1

Orbiter

1

A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.

How they ended

Outcomes

Success

1

Partial success

0

Failure

0

Active

0

Which ones

Every committed mission to Ceres

Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.

1. DawnSeptember 27, 2007Success

Keep going

These records in the directory

The directory's destination filter is a category taxonomy, and it has no Ceres key: these records are filed under other alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts Ceres on its own.

The explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed.