NASA Science Live: NASA's Next New Frontiers Mission [Special Edition]

  • Released Thursday, June 27th, 2019
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:45PM
  • ID: 13245

NASA Science Live: NASA's Next New Fountiers Mission [Special Edition]
Program Aired June 27, 2019

NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon.

Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. The rotorcraft will fly to dozens of promising locations on Titan looking for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and Earth. Dragonfly marks the first time NASA will fly a multi-rotor vehicle for science on another planet; it has eight rotors and flies like a large drone. It will take advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere – four times denser than Earth’s – to become the first vehicle ever to fly its entire science payload to new places for repeatable and targeted access to surface materials.

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