Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer – Carousel Imagery

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The Dragonfly Sample Delivery Carousel (right) awaits integration with DraMS (left) on March 5, 2026, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

NASA’s Dragonfly mission is sending a rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a weirdly Earthlike world rich in organic molecules and shrouded by a thick nitrogen atmosphere. When it arrives in late 2034, Dragonfly will explore sites of interest around Titan’s equatorial regions and collect samples of surface material for analysis inside DraMS, the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer. DraMS is being built, integrated, and tested at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. In March 2026, Dragonfly’s Sample Delivery Carousel (built by Blue Origin) was integrated onto DraMS at NASA Goddard.

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Dragonfly’s Sample Delivery Carousel (left) is integrated onto DraMS (right) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

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DraMS team members check connections to the Sample Delivery Carousel (left) while it is mounted on a turnover dolly, prior to integration with DraMS.

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DraMS team members prepare the Sample Delivery Carousel (center left) for integration with DraMS (upper left).

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DraMS team members prepare the Sample Delivery Carousel (center) for integration with DraMS (top).

Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

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