NASA is requesting $434,600,000 for Dragonfly in fiscal year 2025.
NASA set the total mission lifecycle cost for Dragonfly at $3,350,000,000 as part of the confirmation review.
NASA projected $355,500,000 for Dragonfly in its fiscal year 2024 budget request.
NASA confirmed the Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s moon Titan with a total lifecycle cost of $3,350,000,000.
The Dragonfly project was directed to replan multiple times due to funding constraints in fiscal years 2020 through 2022.
An updated Dragonfly budget and schedule plan was conditionally approved in November 2023 pending the outcome of the fiscal year 2025 budget process.
Dragonfly Bus from Dragonfly Aerospace provides solar array peak power of 1500 W, orbit average power of 800 W, an available payload mass of up to 250 kg, and a payload volume of 1000 x 1000 x 1 m.
The delay of the Dragonfly mission was attributed to uncertainties in potential budgets for planetary science in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, announced on November 28 that the launch of the Dragonfly mission to Titan is delayed by a year to mid-2028.
The Dragonfly team conducted a mission re-plan based on expected 2023-10-01 funding and estimated a revised launch readiness date of 2028-07-01.
NASA will postpone formal confirmation of the Dragonfly mission’s total cost and schedule until mid-2024 following the release of the 2024-10-01 President’s Budget Request.
Budget uncertainty prompted NASA to delay formal confirmation of the Dragonfly mission to Titan in November 2023.
NASA's Agency Program Management Council delayed the confirmation decision for Dragonfly until after the release of the agency’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal.
The fiscal year 2024 request for Dragonfly of $327,700,000 was 18% less than the mission received in 2023.
NASA plans to reconvene consideration of Dragonfly at the Agency Program Management Council in spring 2024.
NASA postponed formal confirmation of the Dragonfly mission in November 2023.
The Senate appropriations report would direct NASA to spend $327,700,000 on Dragonfly in fiscal year 2024.
NASA requested $327,700,000 for the Dragonfly mission in fiscal year 2024.
NASA planned a Dragonfly launch in 2026 at the time of mission selection.
NASA delayed the Dragonfly launch in 2020 from 2026 to 2027 due to external budget pressures linked to the pandemic.