Titan
Dragonfly
Dragonfly is NASA’s Titan rotorcraft mission for sampling organic material and exploring different geologic environments.
Planned; NASA currently keeps Dragonfly in the 2028 launch plan, but a specific launch day is not yet fixed.
Official mission site ↗The mission
Dragonfly is NASA’s rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. The quadrotor lander will fly from site to site, sample materials, and analyze Titan’s geology and chemistry in order to study prebiotic chemistry, habitability, and the moon’s role as a natural laboratory for life-building processes.
The launch
- Launch
- 2028
- Launch location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- Orbit
- Heliocentric N/A
Mission timeline
NASA mission page
Current overview
NASA’s mission page describes Dragonfly’s Titan rotorcraft architecture and mission goals.
Open milestone source ↗Objectives
- 01
Fly a rotorcraft to multiple sites on Titan and collect samples.
- 02
Study Titan’s organic chemistry and surface geology in diverse settings.
- 03
Advance the search for habitability and prebiotic chemistry beyond Earth.
Spacecraft
Dragonfly
Titan rotorcraft lander powered by an MMRTG and designed to fly site-to-site.
- Manufacturer
- Johns Hopkins APL / NASA
- Launch mass
- 875 kg
- Power
- MMRTG
- Propulsion
- Rotorcraft quadcopter
Gallery
One image from Dragonfly.
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