Dragonfly

The Dragonfly satellite bus is designed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads.

Dragonfly is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Dragonfly satellite bus can supply payloads with up to 3.5 kW peak power and an orbit-average power of 630 W.

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.

Maxar has invested more than $10,000,000 on the Dragonfly program.

Dragonfly has been selected as the next mission in NASA's New Frontiers line of medium-class planetary science missions.

The prior shift of Dragonfly’s launch from 2025 to 2026 did not change the mission’s planned arrival at Titan in 2034 because of trajectory changes.

NASA will launch the Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan in 2027 and the mission is expected to arrive at Titan in 2034.

Dragonfly Aerospace developed two new satellite bus products: the 100 kg-class µDragonfly and the 200 kg-class Dragonfly.

NASA is planning to launch the Dragonfly mission to Titan in 2027 and has no plan for a cut in fiscal year 2024.

The Senate appropriations report would direct NASA to spend $327,700,000 on Dragonfly in fiscal year 2024.

NASA will procure a heavy-lift launch vehicle for Dragonfly later 2024 to enable arrival at Titan in 2034.

For fiscal years 2025 through 2028, NASA is projecting spending $1,680,000,000 on Dragonfly, which is double the projection for the same period in its 2024 proposal.

NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX on 2024-11-25 valued at $256,600,000 for the Falcon Heavy launch and related services for Dragonfly during a launch window running from 2024-07-05 to 2028-07-25.

NASA selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly mission to Titan in 2028.

NASA attributed Dragonfly’s cost increases to budget restrictions that stretched out early development phases and delayed the launch from 2026 to 2028.