8 Years from Now, NASA Will Send a Nuclear-Powered Helicopter Into Titan’s Atmosphere Where It Rains Methane
Roughly in December 2034, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered rotorcraft to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, creating…
In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…