A project replan using a revised budget profile set a new Dragonfly launch readiness date of July 2028.
NASA originally selected Dragonfly in 2019 as part of the New Frontiers program.
The Dragonfly spacecraft will travel roughly 3.6 billion miles to reach Titan.
The DRAGONFLY BUS uses a Xenon electric propulsion system with a thrust of 28 mN.
The DRAGONFLY BUS provides a payload volume greater than 1000 x 1000 x 1 m.
The DRAGONFLY BUS AOCS achieves pointing control accuracy of less than 0.02 degrees.
The DRAGONFLY BUS supports RS-422, RS-485, and CAN interfaces for TMTC.
The DRAGONFLY BUS AOCS achieves pointing control stability of less than 0.002 degrees/sec (3-sigma).
The DRAGONFLY BUS uses an S-Band TMTC communication module with a downlink data rate of 400 kbps.
The DRAGONFLY BUS S-Band TMTC communication module supports an uplink data rate of 150 kbps.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson stated that NASA is still planning to launch Dragonfly in 2027 and that the launch plan has not changed.
NASA announced a one-year delay to Dragonfly’s launch in 2020 to cover costs outside the mission itself, including pandemic-related effects on other planetary missions.
Dragonfly is scheduled to launch in 2027 and land on Titan in 2034.
NASA requested $327,700,000 for the Dragonfly mission in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal.
The fiscal year 2024 budget request for Dragonfly represents an 18.1% reduction from the $400,100,000 Dragonfly received in fiscal year 2023.
The Dragonfly project completed its preliminary design review in early March 2023.
NASA has allocated a single Multi-Mission RTG (MMRTG) and up to 24 RHUs for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan, launching in 2027.
Dragonfly Aerospace manufactures two satellite bus models named Dragonfly Bus and uDragonfly Bus.
NASA is planning to launch the Dragonfly mission to Titan in 2027 and has no plan for a cut in fiscal year 2024.
NASA requested $327,700,000 for the Dragonfly mission in its fiscal year 2024 budget request.