NASA spacecraft runs out of fuel after a 7 billion km journey

Spacecraft Dawn finishes the mission of studying 11-year space with lots of valuable images and scientific information.

The Dawn spacecraft stopped working after 11 years of space exploration.(Photo: Forbes).

NASA announced, Dawn - the ship studied the two largest objects in the solar system, running out of fuel on November 1, BGR News reported. The ship did not contact Earth on October 31 and November 1 on schedule. In fact, its uptime has been longer than originally expected.

"Today, we honor the mission of Dawn with incredible technical achievements, priceless scientific information and the entire team that has helped the ship make these discoveries. Stunning images and data that Dawn collects from Vesta and Ceres is essential in understanding the history and development of the solar system, " said Thomas Zurbuchen at NASA.

Dawn was launched into space in 2007 to study and. In 11 years of operation, the ship flew nearly 7 billion km, sending about 95,000 photos and more than 167 GB of scientific data. The ship ran out of fuel during the discovery of Ceres and was expected to continue hovering in orbit for the next few decades or longer.

The Dawn spacecraft stopped working but its contributions to science were still extremely valuable. The data of the ship sent also contains many mysteries that experts hope to answer successfully in the future.