The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan's equator. Clouds drift across its ...

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – NASA is building a nuclear-powered lander for exploring Titan — Saturn’s largest moon having a dense atmosphere and low gravity. Titan is a major target in NASA’s ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft ...

Artist’s illustration of a lake on Titan. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) "There has been this sense that because Titan has such abundant organics, there is no shortage of food sources that could sustain ...

NASA’s Dragonfly mission is due to land on Titan in 2034, giving us an unprecedented look at Saturn’s largest moon – but it may also have to dodge wind-driven rolling boulders.

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" in tests at NASA Langley. Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics ...

The company maps out every inch of the aircraft as a digital data point on a 3D model, or digital twin, which the system uses to pick out inspection points for the drone.

Recently, NASA selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly aerial probe to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The selection constitutes another win for Elon Musk’s launch company. It ...

Science News: NASA has chosen SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. Scheduled for 2028, this $3.35 billion project will se ...

SpaceX Gets $250+ Million to Launch NASA's $3.35 Billion Helicopter Drone to Titan Published: 28 Nov 2024, 11:56 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu 6 photos ...