Sentences with phrase «dragonfly mission»

Morgan Cable is part of the NASA team working on the proposed Dragonfly mission, which would explore Saturn's haze - covered moon using a dual - quadcopter that could fly hundreds of kilometers during a 2 - year mission.

«This is the kind of experiment we can't do in the laboratory because of the time scales involved,» said APL's Elizabeth Turtle, principal investigator for the Dragonfly mission.

The Dragonfly mission would launch a drone - like craft to Saturn's largest moon in 2025 that would land in 2034.

The CAESAR and Dragonfly missions will receive NASA funding through the end of 2018 to further develop and mature their concepts.

Not exact matches

Fighter pilots training for stealth combat missions ought to have a lot of respect for dragonflies.

Dragonflies, which can reach 45 miles per hour, might take on high - speed missions.

With a suite of spectrometers, drills, and cameras, Dragonfly would split its mission between science in the air and on the ground.

Both missions would feature a long wait: Dragonfly would arrive at Titan in 2034, and CAESAR's samples would return to Earth in 2038.

Now a team has developed a concept mission called Dragonfly proposing a dual - quadcopter that could embark upon multiple missions on Saturn's largest moon Titan.

Missions selected were Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR), a mission to return a sample from the nucleus of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, and Dragonfly, a drone - like rotorcraft lander that would explore the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites on Saturn's moon Titan.