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NASA's Nuclear Dragonfly Set to Scout Titan

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NASA's Nuclear Dragonfly Set to Scout Titan
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NASA is building Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered rotorcraft drone, to explore Saturn's moon Titan (launching on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in 2028 with a 2034 arrival). Powered by a multi-mission RTG, it will fly through Titan's dense atmosphere to gather atmospheric, spectrometric, and seismic data, analyze chemical samples, and search for indicators of life, leveraging Titan's dunes and subsurface ocean in a mission costing about $3 billion.

Topics:science#dragonfly#nasa#nuclear#space#spaceflight#titan
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  1. NASA Is Making A Nuclear-Powered Dragonfly Helicopter Straight Out Of Dune  Jalopnik
  2. NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage  NASA Science (.gov)
  3. NASA begins building nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone for 2028 launch to Saturn moon Titan  Space
  4. NASA's Dragonfly drone will explore Saturn's moon Titan  NewsBytes
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