Erin Sutton, flight dynamics model validation lead for NASA’s Dragonfly mission, visited to the Laboratory for Computational ...

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, ...

A decision by NASA this week paved the way for the Dragonfly drone mission to continue to completion. The aim is to land the car-sized drone on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 2034, six years after ...

Over the last few years, the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars made history by proving it was possible to fly a rotorcraft on another planet. And soon NASA will take that concept one step further by ...

NASA is taking what it’s learned from its groundbreaking Ingenuity Mars helicopter to create an even more complex flying machine to explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Whereas Ingenuity features a ...

After overcoming the hurdles of COVID-19 delays and budget overruns, NASA has finally given the Dragonfly rotorcraft mission the go-ahead. This autonomously operated nuclear-powered rotorcraft is set ...

"With Dragonfly, we're turning science fiction into exploration fact." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Testing is now underway on ...

When NASA's new drone Dragonfly arrives on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, it won't roll across the surface like Curiosity, Spirit, and Opportunity have on Mars. Instead, Dragonfly is a dual-rotor ...

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The Dragonfly drone to Titan and other groundbreaking NASA missions rely on plutonium-238, a material now in critical shortage. This episode explores the history, science, and consequences of a ...