The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

Key features and functions include: The DrACO (Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics) drill system on NASA's Dragonfly is designed to collect subsurface samples from Titan's surface.

This is Dragonfly. It's a nuclear-powered drone that's the size of a large lawn mower. Now if NASA is going to send a space drone anywhere, it's Titan ... because, similar to on Earth, it has a ...

Despite the conditions of Titan being quite a bit different ... to gauge potential habitability. The Dragonfly mission is one of just two that NASA will have to decide between by the middle ...

But, thankfully, it will not be NASA’s or humanity’s last hurrah on Titan. Dragonfly – a drone for Titan While additional flybys of Titan by other spacecraft to Saturn would certainly allow ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. Scheduled for 2028, this $3.35 billion project will send a nuclear-powered octocopter to explore Titan's ...

“Radar images from the Cassini mission reveal elongated streaks on Titan's surface that can extend for hundreds of kilometers ...

The first multirotor vehicle from NASA that will ever set foot, er, ski, on another planet. Part robot, part space drone, Dragonfly will make the 759,000-mile eight-year journey to Titan ...

The rotorcraft will explore Titan for three years. The Dragonfly mission is also the first where NASA is flying a vehicle on another planetary body for science. NASA runs an annual fall balloon ...

This and other questions may be answered by upcoming missions to Titan, including NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Dragonfly. The Dragonfly spacecraft, a nuclear-powered ...

NASA has officially announced that the delayed Dragonfly drone mission to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is set to launch in July 2028, marking a significant milestone for planetary exploration.