NASA Selects SpaceX For Dragonfly Mission Launch

Artist's Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface.

Credit: NASA
NASA has selected SpaceX for a $256.6 million, firm-fixed-price contract for the Falcon Heavy launch of the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon. The car-sized Dragonfly rotorcraft will fly over Titan’s surface and periodically land, exploring the possibility that water-based or hydrocarbon...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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