{"id":50100,"date":"2024-11-26T19:19:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-picks-spacex-falcon-heavy-to-launch-mission-to-saturns-titan-moon\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T11:19:42","slug":"nasa-picks-spacex-falcon-heavy-to-launch-mission-to-saturns-titan-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-picks-spacex-falcon-heavy-to-launch-mission-to-saturns-titan-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Picks SpaceX Falcon Heavy to Launch Mission to Saturn\u2019s Titan Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>NASA<\/b> awarded <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> a contract to launch the agency\u2019s Dragonfly mission to Saturn\u2019s Titan moon on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2028. The firm-fixed-price contract announced Monday is worth $256.6 million and includes launch services and other mission related costs.<\/p>\n<p>Dragonfly is a rotorcraft mission to explore Saturn\u2019s moon Titan, and it is part of NASA\u2019s New Frontiers Program. Its scientific payload will characterize Titan\u2019s environment, exploring prebiotic chemistry and chemical indications of whether water-based or hydrocarbon-based life once existed on Saturn\u2019s moon. With a dual quadcopter design, the rover is designed to \u201chop\u201d between different sites on Titan to collect data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is leading the mission with a team of scientists and companies around the world including Lockheed Martin, JAXA, DLR, and CNES.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA is currently targeting the mission to launch between July 5, 2028, and July 25, 2028 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the agency\u2019s Dragonfly mission to Saturn\u2019s Titan moon on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2028. The firm-fixed-price contract announced Monday is worth $256.6 million and includes launch services and other mission related costs. Dragonfly is a rotorcraft mission to explore Saturn\u2019s moon Titan, and it is part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}