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    NASA's Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan
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    NASA’s Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan


    NASA’s Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan

    https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasas-dragonfly-nuclear-powered-helicopter-clears-key-hurdle-ahead-of-2028-launch-toward-huge-saturn-moon-titan

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    2. j--__ on

      you know it’s getting scrapped before ever making it to the launch pad, right? even if it survives this year’s budget, there’s years more of this to go.

    3. c74 on

      > Dragonfly, **a car-sized**, nuclear-powered rotorcraft designed to investigate Titan’s potential to host life, passed its Critical Design Review, NASA announced on Thursday (April 24).

      hmm. makes me wonder what science equipment is on the vehicle that can’t be downsized… and spread out between several other drones.

      at the same time i want to hit myself in the nuts for questioning something that is a ‘go’.

    5. ebam on

      It’s using the MMRTG radioisotope power source. Same as what they use on the mars rover.