SpaceX Falcon Heavy To Launch NASA's Dragonfly Mission To Saturn's Largest Moon In 2028
SpaceX Falcon Heavy To Launch NASA's Dragonfly Mission To Saturn's Largest Moon In 2028
"Dragonfly centers on novel approach to planetary exploration, employing a rotorcraft-lander to travel between and sample diverse sites on Saturn's largest moon," NASA said in a statement.NASA has selected Elon Musk's SpaceX to provide launch services for a rotorcraft lander mission aimed at exploring the largest moon of the planet Saturn in July 2028
美國宇航局已選擇埃隆·馬斯克的SpaceX爲旋翼飛機着陸器任務提供發射服務，該任務旨在於2028年7月探索土星最大的衛星
What Happened: The deal is priced at about $256.6 million, including launch services and other related costs.
發生了什麼：該交易定價約爲2.566億美元，包括髮射服務和其他相關成本。
The mission is expected to fly in the period from July 5 to July 25, 2028, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida to explore the moon called Titan.
該任務預計將在2028年7月5日至7月25日期間從佛羅里達州乘坐SpaceX Falcon Heavy火箭飛行，探索名爲泰坦的月球。
"Dragonfly centers on novel approach to planetary exploration, employing a rotorcraft-lander to travel between and sample diverse sites on Saturn's largest moon," NASA said in a statement.
美國宇航局在一份聲明中說：「蜻蜓以新的行星探索方法爲中心，使用旋翼飛機着陸器在土星最大月球上的不同地點之間旅行和採樣。」
The mission is aimed at identifying the habitability of Titan's environment and searching for chemical indications of whether water-based or hydrocarbon-based life once existed on Saturn's moon, among other goals.
該任務旨在確定土衛六環境的可居住性，尋找土星月球上曾經存在水基生命還是碳氫化合物生命的化學跡象。
Why It Matters: SpaceX has multiple contracts with NASA to fly astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) and also to bring down the space station upon its retirement around 2030.
爲何重要：SpaceX與美國宇航局簽訂了多份合同，將宇航員和貨物運送到國際空間站（ISS），並在空間站於2030年左右退役後將其擊落。
NASA is also relying on a particular version of SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle called the Human Landing System or HLS to enable astronauts to land back on the surface of the Moon for the first time since 1972.
美國宇航局還依靠SpaceX的名爲人類着陸系統或HLS的特定版本的星際飛船運載火箭來使宇航員能夠自1972年以來首次重返月球表面。
During the Artemis 3 mission, slated for no earlier than September 2026, the Starship HLS will be launched first and it will wait for NASA's Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit after filling its tanks in space. Once the Orion spacecraft arrives, the HLS will dock with it. Two of the four crew members on the mission will transfer from Orion to Starship and descend to the surface of the moon.
在計劃不早於2026年9月執行的Artemis 3任務中，將首先發射星際飛船HLS，並將等待美國宇航局的獵戶座航天器在太空中裝滿坦克後進入月球軌道。獵戶座飛船到達後，HLS將與之對接。執行任務的四名機組人員中有兩名將從獵戶座轉移到星際飛船，然後降落到月球表面。
The last time humans set foot on the Moon was in 1972 with Apollo 17. Since then, no crew has traveled beyond low-Earth orbit.
人類最後一次踏上月球是在1972年乘坐阿波羅17號。從那以後，沒有機組人員飛越過低地軌道。
While SpaceX is not yet listed on the exchanges, investors can leverage Destiny Tech100 Inc. (NYSE:DXYZ) and Cathie Wood's Ark Venture Fund (NASDAQ:ARKVX) to participate in the Musk-led space company's growth.
儘管SpaceX尚未在交易所上市，但投資者可以利用Destiny Tech100公司（紐約證券交易所代碼：DXYZ）和凱西·伍德的方舟風險基金（納斯達克股票代碼：ARKVX）參與這家由馬斯克領導的太空公司的增長。
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Photo courtesy: NASA
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