NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

"Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly's mission design, fabrication, integration and test plans are all ...

NASA's Dragonfly mission, launching in 2028, will explore Titan with a nuclear-powered rotorcraft to search for signs of ...

What potential signs of life could exist on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission ...

The Dragonfly project is part of NASA’s New Frontiers program, with a staggering price tag of $3.35 billion (£2,507,775,977.) The nuclear helicopter's main goal is to explore Titan’s surface and ...

Artist's concept of Dragonfly. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—Dragonfly, a challenging and costly NASA mission to launch a drone rotocopter to Saturn’s large moon Titan, has completed the agency’s ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben NASA's pioneering Dragonfly mission has cleared a key hurdle, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to Saturn's huge moon Titan. Dragonfly, a car-sized ...

Dragonfly's critical design review—required for all of NASA's unmanned missions—involved a close inspection of the mission's design, fabrication, integration, and test plans, all of which were ...

That is, this NASA sun-studying mission, named PUNCH, is technically made up of four small satellites that are strategically distributed in our planet's orbit. The quartet is designed, however ...

However, COVID-19 and budget constraints prompted NASA in 2020 to request the Dragonfly team to pursue an alternate launch readiness date of June 2027. And by the time the mission passed its ...