Overview
- NASA announced the 'Viaje a Titán' name‑submission campaign on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, and registration is open through 23:59 EST on January 15, 2027.
- People who sign up will have their names written to a microchip that will fly on Dragonfly and will receive a commemorative digital boarding pass as proof of participation.
- Dragonfly is being built and assembled at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory under principal investigator Elizabeth Turtle and is scheduled to launch in 2028 and arrive at Titan in 2034.
- The rotorcraft will make the first scientific flights over another world, using vertical takeoff and landing to move between sites and instruments such as the DraMS mass spectrometer to collect and analyze surface samples for prebiotic chemistry.
- Because Titan is far from the Sun and extremely cold, Dragonfly will rely on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator for electrical power and heating, a design choice that enables long‑range aerial exploration and sustained sample analysis.