Now, NASA has announced it has chosen a launch provider for this important mission, and it will be SpaceX. With a $256.6 million contract, SpaceX will launch the rotorcraft using a Falcon Heavy ...

Google purchased Titan Aerospace back in April of 2014 after showing an interest in the company’s drones, which can maintain high altitude for prolonged periods of time with little energy input.

Get ready for Google drones. The technology company announced Monday that it has acquired Titan Aerospace, a start-up founded in 2012 that makes high-altitude, solar-powered drones. The purchase ...

Google is adding a drone specialist to its roster of recent acquisitions, with startup Titan Aerospace set to bring its Solara solar-powered unmanned planes to the search giant's airstrip. Billed ...

A maker just created a home built Millennium Falcon drone that has taken off in social media. The drone is built around a carbon fiber quadcopter frame with foam parts and it is most definitely ...

NASA wants to send a flying drone to Saturn’s moon Titan. By Mike Wehner. Published Feb 26th, 2018 3:11PM EST. If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, ...

You’ll have to be more patient if you’re waiting for NASA to send a drone to Saturn’s moon Titan.The space agency has delayed Dragonfly’s launch by roughly a year, from 2026 to 2027, due ...

With its dense and hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere, Titan has been a subject of interest for many decades. And with the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission, which began exploring Saturn and its ...

Dragonfly—which won’t look like a little backyard drone, but more like a flying Mars rover—will spend 2.7 years making a couple dozen flights around Titan.

NASA is sending a drone helicopter to Saturn’s Titan in search of life. By Mike Wehner. Published Jun 28th, 2019 6:04PM EDT. ... and it plans to start with Saturn’s moon Titan. ...

The drone would enter Titan's atmosphere in an aeroshell similar to one that protected the Huygens probe dropped by Cassini in 2005. Once a parachute had deployed to really slow down the descent, ...