Dragonfly will push the boundaries of engineering and science as it explores Titan.
  • Vince
    31·
    11 months ago

    I’m amazed it’s that cheap. Really puts a different perspective on dollar amounts I read in headlines if look at them in terms of how many missions to titan it could have been.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        4·
        11 months ago

        It’s already triple the price. The original budget for the mission was on the order of a billion dollars, it was a New Frontiers mission and missions of that class aren’t supposed to go over that limit.

        I appreciate the science NASA manages to get done, but there is something seriously wrong with that agency’s budgeting process and has been for decades.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Expect it to slip quite a bit. That seems very optimistic to me. I would have said at least eight years, plus delays.

  • blahsay
    161·
    11 months ago

    Now this is uplifting news 👍