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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
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 vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Destination orbit
- Heliocentric N/A
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 12.2 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 11
- First flight
- 2018-02-06
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Strap-On Booster
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Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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