NASA’s 2023 budget proposal projected spending $317,800,000 on the Dragonfly mission in fiscal year 2024.
The Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan received $400,100,000 in fiscal year 2023 funding.
The 2022-level funding scenario would delay Mars Sample Return, DAVINCI, and Dragonfly and would cancel one Earth System Observatory mission while delaying three others.
The Dragonfly mission to Titan, chosen under New Frontiers, has a projected lifecycle cost more than twice the program’s previous cost cap of $850,000,000 excluding launch and operations.
The Dragonfly satellite bus can supply payloads with up to 3.5 kW peak power and an orbit-average power of 630 W.
The Dragonfly satellite bus is designed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads.
The Dragonfly satellite bus is designed for an eight-year lifetime and provides full redundancy on all components.
Dragonfly Aerospace developed two new satellite bus products: the 100 kg-class µDragonfly and the 200 kg-class Dragonfly.
NASA will launch the Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan in 2027 and the mission is expected to arrive at Titan in 2034.
The agreement to fly Dragonfly’s Mantis imaging payload on NanoAvionics D2/AtlaCom-1 was reached in October 2020.
NASA delayed the launch of the fourth New Frontiers mission, Dragonfly, from 2026 to 2027.
The Dragonfly mission will use rotorcraft technology for a much larger vehicle to fly in the dense atmosphere of Titan, and Dragonfly is scheduled for launch in 2027.
Dragonfly's Earth observation solutions focus on supplying high-resolution cameras.
Addvalue and Dragonfly will collaborate to promote Dragonfly's Earth observation solutions and Addvalue's IDRS terminals and services globally.
The memorandum of understanding aims for cross promoting Dragonfly's imaging payloads and satellites and Addvalue's Inter-Satellite Data Relay Service.
Dragonfly intends to drive innovation in Earth observation solutions to provide daily access to high-quality imagery globally.
The memorandum of understanding is a milestone for Dragonfly's plans for near real-time tasking and data delivery for sub-meter imaging systems.
Earth Observing System Data Analytics plans to install a Dragonfly multispectral imager on a satellite scheduled to launch in 2022.
NASA selected Dragonfly in June 2019 as the next mission in the New Frontiers program of medium-sized planetary science missions.
NASA originally requested $95,800,000 for the Dragonfly mission in fiscal year 2021.