NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Begins Integration and Testing Ahead of Mission To Titan

Workers performing power and functional testing on the IEM and PSU in the clean room at APL. Credit - NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Ed Whitman

We’re getting close to launch day for Dragonfly! Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have officially kicked off the integration and testing stage for the car-sized, nuclear-powered helicopter bound for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. According to a press release for APL, after years of designing, tweaking, and testing individual components in laboratories and on computer simulations, various organizations have started testing actual hardware ahead of the mission’s planned 2028 launch.

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