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Mike Wall

NASA's nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter will ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket toward Saturn moon Titan

Illustration of a silvery metallic rotorcraft flying over orangish dunes.

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch yet another high-profile NASA science mission.

The agency announced today (Nov. 25) that it has picked the Falcon Heavy to loft Dragonfly, a $3.35 billion mission that will investigate the life-hosting potential of Saturn's huge moon Titan. The burly rocket also launched NASA's Psyche asteroid probe and Europa Clipper spacecraft, in October 2023 and October 2024, respectively.

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