CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is scheduled to reach the Selk Crater region on Saturn’s moon Titan in the year 2034. Scientists have characterised the landscape of this region by analysing radar images of the area acquired by the Cassini spacecraft during its 13 years of exploring the Saturn system.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dragonfly is a NASA mission to Saturn’s largest moon Titan scheduled to launch in 2027. The spacecraft is an eight-bladed drone-like craft called a quadcopter that will make short flights around the surface. Titan’s atmosphere is similar to Earth’s when life arose here 3.5 billion years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dragonfly is expected to launch in June 2027, and will take seven years to reach Titan, arriving by 2034. The spacecraft will perform a gravity assist flyby of Venus, and three passes by Earth to gain additional velocity.

Detailed explanation-4: -NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon. Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034.