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NASA's Dragonfly mission — a nuclear-powered octocopter designed to explore Saturn's moon Titan — has entered its critical integration and testing phase at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, targeting a July 2028 launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Though the mission's cost has ballooned from $1 billion to $3.35 billion through four replans, the spacecraft represents an unprecedented feat of engineering that could reveal whether the chemical precursors to life exist on a world eerily reminiscent of early Earth.