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NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft enters integration and testing phase for Titan mission

The nuclear-powered drone moves from its design phase to flight system assembly.

NASA’s Dragonfly will land on Titan then do something no spacecraft has done before

NASA's Dragonfly mission will revolutionize planetary exploration by deploying a rotorcraft lander to Titan, Saturn's largest ...
Labroots

Dragonfly Mission to Titan Advances Toward 2028 Launch

What potential signs of life could exist on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission hopes to address as this rotorcraft recently advanced past its Critical Design ...
CNN

Diving in the Titan ‘was never supposed to be safe,’ mission specialist says of the experimental submersible

Four days of hearings on the 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible which killed all five people on board concluded this week with more damning testimony recounting multiple safety incidents over the ...
The Vindicator

Passenger on a previous Titan sub dive says his mission was aborted due to apparent malfunction

A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel today that the mission he took part in was ...
SlashGear

NASA's Dragonfly Mission Is Headed To Titan - Here's What You Need To Know

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the only known moon that contains its own atmosphere denser than Earth's, and is the only known object in space other than Earth that contains stable liquids on ...
ExecutiveGov

NASA’s Titan-Bound Dragonfly Rotorcraft Enters Integration, Testing Phase

Dragonfly will fly between sites on Titan’s surface to investigate dune fields and impact sites such as Selk Crater.