{"id":209917,"date":"2024-11-27T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/nasa-selects-spacex-to-launch-dragonfly-mission-to-titan\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:15:14","slug":"nasa-selects-spacex-to-launch-dragonfly-mission-to-titan","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/nasa-selects-spacex-to-launch-dragonfly-mission-to-titan\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA selects SpaceX to launch Dragonfly mission to Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NASA has awarded SpaceX a $257 million contract to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission<\/a><\/strong> , a project within the New Frontiers Program<\/strong> . This mission aims to explore Titan<\/strong> , Saturn’s largest moon, using a space helicopter for lunar surface exploration. <\/p>\n\n

Dragonfly Mission Progress<\/h2>\n\n

The mission<\/strong> will focus on analyzing and investigating Titan<\/strong> ‘s geological composition to identify and search for signs of habitable conditions, extracting prebiotic chemistry and the possible existence of life. During the trip, the Dragonfly helicopter<\/strong> will take samples of materials and study the organic compounds present on Saturn’s satellite, where hydrocarbons and liquid water may have interacted for billions of years. <\/p>\n\n

SpaceX<\/strong> ‘s Falcon Heavy rocket<\/strong> , launched from the Kennedy Space Center<\/strong> in Florida, will be tasked with carrying out this mission to Titan<\/strong> during the launch period scheduled between July 5 and 25, 2028. This fixed-price contract covers not only the launch but also the costs related to the mission, which promises to advance the search for the building blocks of life<\/strong> on other planets. <\/p>\n\n

The Dragonfly<\/strong> vehicle, supported by the collaboration of scientists and experts from around the world, represents a new approach to planetary exploration<\/strong> , through the use of an autonomous helicopter<\/strong> that will perform controlled flights in an inhospitable place, very different from Earth.<\/p>\n\n

The mission aims to investigate the evolution of Titan<\/strong> ‘s prebiotic chemistry, a place where water and organic compounds may have mixed over long periods of time, opening the door to new perspectives on the possibility of life beyond our planet.<\/p>\n\n

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Source and photo<\/strong>: NASA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the mission, the Dragonfly autonomous vehicle will take samples of materials and study the organic elements present on Saturn’s satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":209857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13064,13030],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-209917","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-aerospace","categoria_noticias-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/209917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/209917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=209917"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=209917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}