{"id":242898,"date":"2026-08-19T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/nasas-dragonfly-rotorcraft-will-launch-on-a-spacex-falcon-heavy-in-july-2028-and-spend-six-and-a-half-years-crossing-the-solar-system-to-land-on-a-moon-that-has-weather"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:05:06","slug":"nasas-dragonfly-rotorcraft-will-launch-on-a-spacex-falcon-heavy-in-july-2028-and-spend-six-and-a-half-years-crossing-the-solar-system-to-land-on-a-moon-that-has-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/nasas-dragonfly-rotorcraft-will-launch-on-a-spacex-falcon-heavy-in-july-2028-and-spend-six-and-a-half-years-crossing-the-solar-system-to-land-on-a-moon-that-has-weather","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Dragonfly rotorcraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in July 2028 and spend six and a half years crossing the solar system to land on a moon that has weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-dragonfly-rotorcraft-will-launch-on-a-spacex-falcon-heavy-in-july-2028-and-spend-six-and-a-half-years-crossing-the-solar-system-to-land-on-a-moon-that-has-weather.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dragonfly\u2019s July 2028 target launch begins a six-and-a-half-year journey to Titan, where a nuclear-powered flying laboratory will compare organic dunes, weather and impact terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragonfly\u2019s July 2028 target launch begins a six-and-a-half-year journey to Titan, where a nuclear-powered flying laboratory will compare organic dunes, weather and impact terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242898","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}