NASA Confirms Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan

Dragonfly is an upcoming mission being designed and built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, under the direction of NASA. Elizabeth Turtle of APL serves as the principal investigator for the project. The team working on Dragonfly includes key partners from various organizations such as 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 in Paris, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, and JAXA in Tokyo.

Dragonfly represents the fourth mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The mission falls under the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. The team is working relentlessly to ensure the successful completion of Dragonfly in its mission to explore new frontiers and further our understanding of the universe.