NASA's Dragonfly mission will take on Titan

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Unfortunately it will arrive in the year 2034, but it will still be pretty cool to land near one of its oceans, and also pretty cool to see if there is anything swimming about in freezing oceans of hydrocarbons, (probably not).

"We have the capacity, over the mission's lifetime, to go hundreds of kilometers," said Turtle. "One of the advantages we have is that we can always scout the next site. We can fly ahead, look at it, see what kind of terrain there is, and decide whether we want to go there or elsewhere."
Mission launch 7 years time, and it is nuclear powered, so can stay airborne for a lot longer than half an hour, and has 8 rotors, since Nuclear material has considerable weight.

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