NASA picks Dragonfly mission to send a nuclear drone to Saturnian moon Titan. by Alan Boyle on June 27, 2019 at 3:09 pm September 11, 2019 at 10:52 am.

Today, NASA announced the next mission in their New Frontiers program to explore the solar system. Dragonfly, a drone lander, will explore Saturn’s largest moon Titan.

NASA's Dragonfly mission will arrive at Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2034, flying across its surface to study how the planet's conditions might resemble those on Earth before life formed.

NASA'S Dragonfly rotorcraft is scheduled for a 2028 journey to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which is located 746 million miles from Earth.

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.

And soon NASA will take that concept one step further by launching a drone mission to explore an even more distant world: Saturn’s icy moon of Titan. The Dragonfly mission is set to explore ...

NASA announced a billion dollar mission to explore Titan. The Dragonfly drone will aid the search for life on Saturn's largest moon.

Dragonfly experienced delays before becoming approved for launch. NASA's mission to Titan passed all the success criteria of its preliminary design review in early 2023, which provides "increased ...

Both concepts call for robotic probes to be launched in the 2020s and yield results in the 2030s. Flying around Titan. The Dragonfly mission would launch a drone-type rotorcraft toward smog ...

Dragonfly is set to become the first multi-rotor aircraft to fly on another celestial body when it reaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in 2034. Skip to main content Menu ...

You’ll have to be more patient if you’re waiting for NASA to send a drone to Saturn’s moon Titan.The space agency has delayed Dragonfly’s launch by roughly a year, from 2026 to 2027, due ...

Today, NASA announced the next mission in their New Frontiers program to explore the solar system. Dragonfly, a drone lander, will explore Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Titan is the only solar system ...