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(臨時代碼)提供一種旋翼式着陸器任務的發射服務，計劃於2028年7月探索土星最大衛星。
What Happened: The deal is priced at about $256.6 million, including launch services and other related costs.
事件：該交易價格約爲25660萬美元，包括髮射服務和其他相關費用。
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.
該任務預計在2028年7月5日至7月25日之間從佛羅里達州使用spacex(臨時代碼)的獵鷹重型火箭飛往一個名爲泰坦的衛星。
"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.
「蜻蜓以一種新穎的方法進行行星探索，利用旋翼着陸器在土星最大衛星上旅行並採樣不同地點，」美國宇航局在一份聲明中表示。
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.
該任務旨在識別泰坦環境的宜居性，並尋找其上是否曾存在基於水或碳氫化合物的生命的化學跡象，以及其他目標。
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.
重要性：spacex(臨時代碼)與美國宇航局簽訂了多個合同，負責將宇航員和貨物送往國際空間站，並在空間站於2030年左右退休時將其帶回地球。
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(臨時代碼)的一種特定版本的星艦運載火箭，稱爲人類着陸系統（HLS），以使宇航員首次自1972年以來重新登上月球表面。
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.
在計劃於2026年9月之後的阿爾忒彌斯3號任務中，星艦HLS將首個發射，並將在空間中加滿油後，等待美國宇航局的獵戶座飛船在月球軌道中到達。獵戶座飛船到達後，HLS將與其對接。任務中的四名機組成員中的兩名將從獵戶座轉移到星艦，並降落到月球表面。
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，阿波羅17號任務。自那時起，沒有航天員飛出低地球軌道。
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.
雖然spacex(臨時代碼)尚未在交易所上市，但投資者可以利用Destiny Tech100 Inc. (紐交所:DXYZ)和Cathie Wood的Ark創業公司基金 (納斯達克:ARKVX)參與馬斯克領導的太空公司的增長。
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Photo courtesy: NASA
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