{"id":177203,"date":"2023-12-01T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasas-nuclear-powered-drone-mission-to-saturns-moon-now-set-for-2028"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:23:58","slug":"nasas-nuclear-powered-drone-mission-to-saturns-moon-now-set-for-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasas-nuclear-powered-drone-mission-to-saturns-moon-now-set-for-2028","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s nuclear-powered drone mission to Saturn\u2019s moon now set for 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zooO-9TYP3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s maiden mission to explore Saturn\u2019s moon, Titan, has progressed to the next phase of development.<\/p>\n<p>If everything goes as planned, the launch of this car-sized nuclear-powered drone will take place in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, will move to the final stages of design and development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/watch-nasa-test-its-8-rotor-titan-moon-drone-dragonfly\" title=\"Dragonfly drone\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Dragonfly drone<\/a> with NASA\u2019s preliminary design approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s maiden mission to explore Saturn\u2019s moon, Titan, has progressed to the next phase of development. If everything goes as planned, the launch of this car-sized nuclear-powered drone will take place in 2028. The Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, will move to the final stages of design and development of the Dragonfly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}