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Ceres

Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that name Ceres as a destination. None of them is maintained by hand.

Ephemeris pending

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
Marked pending, never drawn

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
Latest launch
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.

Committed missions to Ceres by launch decade.
DecadeMissions launched
2000s1

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. DawnSuccess

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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.

View the 12 missions filed under other

The explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed. None of the records above carries a committed trajectory dataset, so the explorer has no Ceres path to draw and this page offers no link to one.