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Artist's concept of Dragonfly after landing on the surface of Titan.

Artist's concept of Dragonfly as it prepares to gather data at Titan.

Artists' concept of the Dragonfly rotorcraft in a close up view.

Artist's concept of another angle showing Dragonfly at Titan.

Artist's concept of Dragonfly hovering over the dunes of Titan.

Artist's concept depicting Dragonfly's rotors in action over Titan.

Artist's concept of Dragonfly crossing the skies of Titan to collect data.

Artist's concept of Dragonfly hovering over the surface of Titan.

Artist's concept of Dragonfly's landing on Titan and taking off for exploration.

In this animation, experience NASA’s Dragonfly mission as it enters Titan’s atmosphere, descends through the moon’s thick haze, and lands on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon.

Animation of Dragonfly's aeroshell separating from the spacecraft as it arrives at Titan.

Animation showing the Dragonfly aeroshell heading towards Titan's atmosphere with its cargo.

Animation of the heat shield separating from the backshell once through the rough Titan upper atmosphere.

Animation shows Dragonfly's first flight as it releases from the backshell and parachute.

Animation showing Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Titan.

Animation depicting Dragonfly's takeoff from the surface of Titan.

Animation recreates a look from below as Dragonfly descends from flight.

Longer animation compiling Dragonfly images from descent to exploration.

Animation of spacecraft (top) separating from the aeroshell, which includes the backshell, heat shield on the bottom, and the Dragonfly rotorcraft within.

Animation of Dragonfly builds a rotating 3D model of the rotorcraft, showing its components from the inner instruments to the outer shell.

Animation of translucent rotorcraft features DraMS mass spectrometer in orange and DrACO drill for organics collection in red.

In a cleanroom at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, on April 3, 2026, (from left) Sean Gazarik, Tyler Radomsky, Amber Dubill and Emory Toomey complete a “fit check” of Dragonfly’s top deck on the rest of the rotorcraft lander’s body. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman)

The Dragonfly Sample Delivery Carousel (right) awaits integration with the Dragonfly mass spectrometer, or DraMS, (left) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on March 2, 2026. Click below for additional photos and to learn more. (NASA/Mike Guinto)

Led by Airborne Systems in coordination with NASA’s Langley Research Center and Ames Research Center, the drop test on Feb.11, 2026, in Eloy, Arizona, marked the first trial of a full-scale Dragonfly entry, descent and landing system parachute, replicating the Titan descent sequence. (Credit: Airborne Systems North America)

In the cleanroom at APL, Emory Toomey (left) and Hunter Reeling integrate the engineering model of Dragonfly’s IEM, which contains the spacecraft’s core avionics, with the lander’s electrical harness, which is the bundled assembly of wires, cables and connectors that will transmit power and data throughout the rotorcraft. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)

From left, Carlisa Drew, Seth Harvey, Anthony Fanelli, Emory Toomey and TJ Lee conduct power and functional testing on Dragonfly’s Integrated Electronics Module (IEM) and Power Switching Unit (PSU) in the cleanroom at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. The IEM is Dragonfly’s “brain,” containing the spacecraft’s core avionics; the PSUs control the flow of power to Dragonfly’s instruments and systems. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman)

Engineers install and adjust the rotors on the full-scale test model representing half of the Dragonfly lander in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center. (NASA)

Members of the Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer team inspect their device, part of the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer (DraMS) instrument package, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. (NASA)

A section of Dragonfly’s foam insulation is prepared for testing in the Titan Chamber at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. (Johns Hopkins APL/Justin Artis)

Dragonfly is using Frontier radio, which is smaller and needs less power than other deep-space radios, and can send and receive signals in a wide range of frequencies. (Johns Hopkins APL)

Engineers at Lockheed Martin have completed the fabrication, cure and thermal cycle testing of Dragonfly’s aeroshell heat shield and backshell structures. (Lockheed Martin)

Dragonfly team members review the half-scale lander model after it underwent wind tunnel testing at NASA's Langley Research Center. (Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman)