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Making multiple flights, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will explore a variety of locations on Saturn's moon Titan.

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    NASA’s Dragonfly Soaring Through Key Development, Test Activities

    A man in a blue T-shirt on a ladder adjusting the rotor blades for the spacecraft model in the wind tunnel

    NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft being designed and built for NASA at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, will explore Saturn’s moon Titan. Following launch and a six-year journey to […]

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    NASA’s Dragonfly Passes Critical Design Review

    NASA’s Dragonfly, the first rotorcraft designed for science exploration on another planet, has passed its Critical Design Review. The mission to Saturn’s icy moon Titan will investigate prebiotic chemical processes and complex organic compounds that, on Earth, are the building blocks of life. Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and […]

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