{"id":92762,"date":"2019-06-27T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-is-sending-a-life-hunting-drone-to-saturns-huge-moon-titan"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:02:28","slug":"nasa-is-sending-a-life-hunting-drone-to-saturns-huge-moon-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-is-sending-a-life-hunting-drone-to-saturns-huge-moon-titan","title":{"rendered":"NASA Is Sending a Life-Hunting Drone to Saturn\u2019s Huge Moon Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-sending-a-life-hunting-drone-to-saturns-huge-moon-titan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is going to Titan.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency announced today (June 27) that the next mission in its New Frontiers line of medium-cost missions will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/43010-dragonfly-mission-would-put-a-drone-on-titan.html\">Dragonfly<\/a>, a rotorcraft designed to ply the skies of the huge, hazy and potentially life-hosting Saturn moon.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and land on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15257-titan-saturn-largest-moon-facts-discovery-sdcmp.html\">Titan<\/a> eight years later, NASA officials said. The probe will then spend at least 2.5 years cruising around the 3,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) moon, making two dozen flights that cover a total of about 110 miles (180 km).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is going to Titan. The space agency announced today (June 27) that the next mission in its New Frontiers line of medium-cost missions will be Dragonfly, a rotorcraft designed to ply the skies of the huge, hazy and potentially life-hosting Saturn moon. If all goes according to plan, Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92762","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=92762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}