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From left, Carlisa Drew, Seth Harvey, Anthony Fanelli, Emory Toomey and TJ Lee conduct power and functional testing on Dragonfly’s Integrated Electronics Module (IEM) and Power Switching Unit (PSU) in the cleanroom at Johns Hopkins APL

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Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage

March 13, 2026

In the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, Emory Toomey (left) and…

Two men in dark shirts work on a red car-sized rotorcraft protype in a testing chamber.

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Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

January 10, 2026

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage…

Artist's rendering of NASA's Cassini spacecraft observing a sunset through Titan's hazy atmosphere. Against the blackness of space, the moon is backlit, with a ring of white and a ring of blue light marking its outer edge, with the Sun as a point of bright light peeking from the upper-right edge of the disc. Cassini is dimly lit in the foreground partially blocking the moon, a dull gold with a large white antenna dish, and three spindly protrusions coming out of its center at 90-degree angles to each other.

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NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

December 18, 2025

A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a…

Cordualadensa acorni. Image credit: Alex Anderson.

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75-Million-Year-Old Dragonfly Species Found | Sci.News

August 20, 2025

Named Cordualadensa acorni, the new dragonfly species from Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park represents the only Mesozoic dragonfly for…