NASA Selects SpaceX for Dragonfly Mission to Explore Titan’s Surface and Search for Life

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch the Dragonfly mission. This mission will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Dragonfly will use a rotorcraft lander to travel between different sites. It aims to sample materials and study the surface composition to advance our search for life’s building blocks.

Dragonfly will analyze Titan’s environment. The mission will investigate how prebiotic chemistry develops on Titan, where carbon-rich materials and liquid water may have interacted over time. Scientists will search for signs of water-based or hydrocarbon-based life that may have existed there.

NASA’s Launch Services Program will manage the launch from Kennedy Space Center. The Dragonfly project is led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The team includes experts in space missions, rotorcraft, and autonomous flight.

Dragonfly is the fourth mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. This program is managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Contact:
Julian Coltre / Tiernan Doyle
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
julian.n.coltre@nasa.gov / tiernan.p.doyle@nasa.gov