Falcon Heavy | Dragonfly

Launch Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2028 00:00:00 GMT

Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Vehicle: Falcon Heavy

Status: To Be Determined

Mission Details

Dragonfly is NASA's 4th New Frontiers program mission that will send a robotic rotorcraft to fly within the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings, advancing humanity's search for the building blocks of life. The craft is a large quadcopter with double rotors with mass of about 875 kg, featuring rotors of 1.35 m in diameter. It can fly through several kilometers within an hour and will perform 1 flight per Titan day (~16 Earth days). During the planned 3.3-year mission, Dragonfly is expected to cover distance up to several hundred km. Dragonfly will use a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) to power its instruments. The planned science instrument suite is: * DragonCam: Camera Suite * DrACO: Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics * DraMS: Mass Spectrometer * DraGNS: Gamma-ray and Neutron Spectrometer * DraGMet: Geophysics and Meteorology

Launch Service Provider

SpaceX (SpX)

Rocket Information

Configuration: Falcon Heavy
Manufacturer: SpaceX
Payload Capacity to LEO: 63800 kg
Height: 70 meters
Diameter: 12.2 meters

Launch Pad

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Launch Complex 39A

Updates

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:46:00 GMT
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