NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Titan, Saturn’s Moon, Officially Approved

Dragonfly is a mission being designed and built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, with Elizabeth Turtle serving as the principal investigator. The mission is being managed by APL for NASA. The team working on Dragonfly includes key partners from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Lockheed Martin Space, NASA’s Ames Research Center, NASA’s Langley Research Center, Penn State University, Malin Space Science Systems, Honeybee Robotics, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CNES, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and JAXA.

Dragonfly is the fourth mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program and is managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. The mission aims to explore and study various aspects of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.