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NASA has chosen its next planetary mission, which will send a flying rover called Dragonfly to Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It will not have wheels, but will fly through the atmosphere using ...
Dragonfly—which won’t look like a little backyard drone, but more like a flying Mars rover—will spend 2.7 years making a couple dozen flights around Titan.
An artist's impression of NASA's Dragonfly mission against the landscape of Saturn's moon Titan. Recent results from the Curiosity Rover failed to turn up signs of life but it has helped pinoneer ...
NASA is sending a drone-style quadcopter to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The quadcopter, named Dragonfly, will launch in 2026 and arrive at Titan in 2034. In under an hour, Dragonfly can cover ...
NASA won't be sending a rover to Saturn's moon Titan in search of alien fly. It's sending a Dragonfly.
Launching in 2027, Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will arrive in 2034 and explore Titan from the air. Its range will be far greater than that of a wheeled rover, with Dragonfly capable of covering ...
NASA announced Thursday that it is sending a drone-style quadcopter to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Dragonfly, as the mission is called, will be capable of soaring across the skies of Titan and ...
If there’s one thing you can definitely say about NASA, it’s that they sure do like to plan ahead. Despite more pressing ambitions like returning to the Moon, launching a new Mars rover, and ...
NASA is expecting to launch the mission by 2026. Sadly, we’ll have to wait until around 2034 for Dragonfly to land on Titan. But it’ll be worth the wait.
NASA’s newest mission will send a giant flying drone to a world unlike any the space agency has visited before: Saturn’s methane-drenched moon, Titan. The Dragonfly spacecraft, set to launch ...
NASA has committed up to $850 million to an interplanetary probe unlike any seen before: a spacecraft that will fly through the smoggy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's biggest moon.
In some ways, the process looks similar to how NASA landed the Perseverance rover on Mars in 2021, a dramatic event that was captured by high-definition cameras.