NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s fuckin goooooooooooo

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We want Healthcare.

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s unexpectedly good news!

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  NASA has formally approved the robotic Dragonfly mission for full development, committing to a revolutionary project to explore Saturn’s largest moon with a quadcopter drone.

  This review is a checkpoint in the lifetime of most NASA projects and marks the moment when the agency formally commits to the final design, construction, and launch of a space mission.

  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which flew past Titan numerous times before its mission ended in 2017, discovered weather systems on the hazy moon.

  The mission will visit more than 30 locations within Titan’s equatorial region, according to a presentation by Elizabeth Turtle, Dragonfly’s principal investigator at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

  “The team is dedicated and enthusiastic about accomplishing this unprecedented investigation of the complex carbon chemistry that exists on the surface of Titan and the innovative technology bringing this first-of-its-kind space mission to life."

  Turtle’s science team proposed Dragonfly to NASA through the agency’s New Frontiers program, which has developed a series of medium-class Solar System exploration missions.

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• pissedatyall@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Send Elon.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like you’re fed up with Elon and his BS, but I’d like you to take a moment and look around.

    This article does not mention Elon. No one in this thread has mentioned Elon, except you. You have linked Elon to this solely because it deals with space, but you are the one propagating that link. You are the one keeping him in the conversation. Maybe, I don’t know, stop fucking talking about him?

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