{"id":25466,"date":"2024-11-29T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T04:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=25466"},"modified":"2024-11-29T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T04:42:31","slug":"nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-dragonfly-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-dragonfly-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Dragonfly Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA\u2019s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn\u2019s moon Titan. The mission will sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings, advancing our search for the building blocks of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The firm-fixed-price contract is valued at approximately $256.6 million and includes launch services and other mission-related costs. The Dragonfly mission is targeted to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida from July 5 to July 25, 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dragonfly centers on a novel approach to planetary exploration, employing a rotorcraft lander to travel between and sample diverse sites on Saturn\u2019s largest moon. With contributions from partners around the globe, Dragonfly\u2019s scientific payload will characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment, investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry on Titan, where carbon-rich material and liquid water may have mixed for an extended period, and search for chemical indications of whether water-based or hydrocarbon-based life once existed on Saturn\u2019s moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA\u2019s Launch Services Program at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center manages the launch service. Managed for NASA at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, the Dragonfly team comprises scientists, engineers, technologists, managers, and more who have deep experience on missions that have explored the solar system from the Sun to Pluto and beyond, as well as experts in rotorcraft, autonomous flight, and space systems from around the globe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dragonfly is the fourth mission in NASA\u2019s New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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