In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn's moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth's, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
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"In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn's moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth's, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part." is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 1 articles from 1 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
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- NASA’s Saturn-bound Dragonfly spacecraft reaches major milestone The Moore County News-Press · 60d ago
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