SPACE
January 24, 2020
NASA Is Sending a Life-Looking Drone to Saturn’s Enormous Moon Titan
NASA goes to Titan.
The area company introduced right this moment (June 27) that the subsequent mission in its New Frontiers line of medium-cost missions will likely be Dragonfly, a rotorcraft designed to ply the skies of the massive, hazy and probably life-hosting Saturn moon.
If all goes according to plan, Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and land on Titan eight years later, NASA officers stated. The probe will then spend at least 2.5 years cruising across the three,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) moon, making two dozen flights that cowl a complete of about 110 miles (180 km).
