NASA’s Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan
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Clarify the bounce of the dragon roundabout in NASA in the sky of Saturn Larget Moon, Titan. | Credit: NASA/Jones Hopkins
The leading task in NASA wiped a major obstacle, which led to the right track of the launch of 2028 to the huge Titan in Saturn.
dragonflyCar -sized round round, nuclear energy is designed for investigation TitanNASA announced on Thursday (April 24),
“Passing, manufacturing, manufacturing, integrating and testing important designs that have been approved, and the task can now turn their attention to building the spacecraft itself.” A nasa statement Read.
The 3.35 billion dollar Dragonfly mission was chosen for the first time by NASA in 2019, and was designed and built under the supervision of the Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Physics (APL) in Maryland, with APL TURTLE as a major investigator.
The task has been struck delay And the costs of costs, but the study of Titan is a high priority by scientists for its ability to the port Strange life.
The task is scheduled to be launched before July 2028 on the Spacex area Falcon is heavy A NASA missile in Florida. The spacecraft will then start a journey of approximately seven years in the deep space Saturn The system, with the aim of spending more than three years in studying areas across the cold and varied Titan surface.
Equipped with cameras, sensors and sampling, Dragonfly will evaluate Titan, and search for pre -biological chemistry as well as signs of possible life.
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Titan is the largest moon in Saturn, and the second largest moon in the solar system behind Ganimidy From Jupiter. The thick atmosphere, foggy, is preparing a surface that includes dubies of hydrocarbons and methane lakes. Under the ice moon crust, scientists believe that there is a Under the surface of the surface of salt waterIn addition to the capabilities of Titan for the port of life.
In 2005, NASA Cassini’s mission Huygens was handed over to Titan. Huygens introduced the European Space Agency with the help of umbrellas DeclineWhich provided deep visions in the giant moon. Fabs, if it succeeds, a revolution can occur in our understanding of how life appears elsewhere in Solar system.
