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Launch Services Contract Awarded For Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission

by Keith Cowing

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission will […]

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Profiling Near-Surface Winds On Mars Using Attitude Data From Mars 2020 Ingenuity

by Keith Cowing

We used attitude data from the Mars Ingenuity helicopter with a simple steady-state model to estimate windspeeds and directions at altitudes of 3 meters up to 24 meters, the first […]

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Dragonfly Rotorcraft Astrobiology Mission To Titan Confirmed

by Keith Cowing

NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing […]

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Possible Off World AwayTeam Applications: Lab-on-a-drone That Tracks Air Pollution On Earth

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: NASA is currently flying the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars as part of the Mars Perseverance rover mission. As of this posting it has flown 67 times and continues […]

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Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission To Titan Can Proceed With Final Mission Design Work

by Keith Cowing

NASA’s Dragonfly mission has been authorized to proceed with work on final mission design and fabrication – known as Phase C – during fiscal year (FY) 2024. The agency is […]

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Tricorder / Away Team Tech: A Drone That Collects Environmental DNA From Trees

by Keith Cowing

Ecologists are increasingly using traces of genetic material left behind by living organisms left behind in the environment, called environmental DNA (eDNA), to catalogue and monitor biodiversity. Based on these […]

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Video: Drone Footage Of Lake Untersee, Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

Dale Andersen: A quick video tour of Lake Untersee using drone footage I captured including views of our camp, a drive across the lake from our camp to the pressure […]

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