Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dragonfly and CAESAR, a comet sample return mission to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, were the two finalists for the New Frontiers program Mission 4, [25] [26] and on 27 June 2019, NASA selected Dragonfly for development with a plan to launch in June 2027. [27] [28] On 3 March 2023, Dragonfly passed its preliminary design review (PDR). [29]
NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a robotic rotorcraft probe which will explore Saturn's moon Titan. [1] NASA plans to launch Artemis 4. The first to use SLS Block 1B. Russia expects to launch the Luna 27 lunar lander in 2028. Chang'e 8, the last mission before China’s moon base begins construction, is planned to launch.
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.
Dragonfly: Dragonfly: 5–25 July 2028 [83] Falcon Heavy [83] NASA: Lander Planned Part of the New Frontiers program, the mission will deploy a robotic rotorcraft to Saturn's moon Titan to evaluate its potential for microbial habitability and investigate its prebiotic chemistry across multiple sites. [84] [85] 4 Enceladus Explorer: Enceladus ...
New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory – could help explain one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, according to the researchers behind them.
The two finalists, CAESAR and Dragonfly, each received $4 million funding through the end of 2018 to further develop and mature their concepts. [39] On June 27, 2019, NASA announced the selection of Dragonfly as the New Frontiers 4 mission for a launch in 2026, [40] later delayed to July 2028. [23]
The Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance (AVIATR) is a proposed unmanned plane (or drone) which if approved, will take high-definition images of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan to help scientists understand the moon's geology. It is planned that at the end of the mission, the unmanned plane will attempt a landing on ...
Project Dragonfly is the first conceptual design study that assesses the feasibility of a laser-propelled interstellar probe, conducted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Contrary to past unmanned interstellar mission studies such as Project Daedalus and Project Icarus , the focus is particularly on a small spacecraft. [ 2 ]