06-02-2004 Dawn mission is confirmed to proceed to implementation.

02-03-2003 Dawn's VIR instrument website realized by the IASF Institute is online at this address.

09-10-2002 The Dawn's Early Light is a newsletter containing information about the mission and opportunities for research by members of the science community. It is distributed by Dawn's official website. Copies may be found here.

21-12-2001 Dawn was selected on December 21, 2001among other missions for NASA's Discovery Program. Dawn will be NASA's first purely scientific mission using solar electric propulsion (SEP), an advanced technology that will enable many future aspects of solar system exploration and that has been validated for flight by the New Millennium program's Deep Space 1 mission.