NASA is teaming up with rocket-maker SpaceX for its upcoming mission to explore Saturn's moon Titan.The US space agency on Monday announced a $256.6 million contract with SpaceX to support the launch of the Dragonfly mission — a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA's New Frontiers Program,

NASA announced Monday that it has selected SpaceX to launch its Dragonfly mission to Saturn's largest moon Titan sometime in July 2028.

NASA announced that it has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for its ambitious Dragonfly mission that will place a rotorcraft lander at Saturn's moon of Titan as part of its New Frontiers Program.

Expanding on the success of Ingenuity, NASA will send another first of its kind helicopter mission to explore outside Earth, Saturn’s biggest moon Titan.

NASA’s return to the moon has been plagued by delays and spiraling costs, which means it could now fall to privateer firms like SpaceX to take us back to the surface of the moon. If the Elon Musk-backed company is given NASA’s contract to fly to the moon,

NASA has picked SpaceX to launch its Dragonfly astrobiology mission to the intriguing Saturn moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will loft Dragonfly in July 2028.

SpaceX has launched a handful of planetary science missions for NASA, but these spacecraft have all used solar arrays to generate electricity. In this century, NASA's probes relying on nuclear power have all flown on rockets built by United Launch Alliance (ULA),