NASA delays its Titan drone mission by another year

今日の英語の習慣化は...
NASA発の記事から、 Dragonfly (トンボ)と呼ばれるDroneのMissionを延期すると言う記事。この場合のTitanは火星の月を指しています。Titan自体には、ギリシャ神話の巨大という意味の神タイタンもあります。

Another year という言い方も覚えておきましょう！

詳細は記事にありますよ！イメージを使って英語を日常化しましょう！

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 delayedDragonfly’s launch by roughly a year, from 2026 to 2027, due to “external” factors. And yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of them — its impact on the Planetary Science Division budget made it more practical to wait.

NASA had originally planned to launch Dragonfly in 2025 before the first delay.

NASA’s first multi-rotor science vehicle on another celestial body, and the first of any kind to carry its full science payload between multiple areas. The drone will spend nine years flying relatively regular missions to collect samples and study both the habitability of Titan as well as the development of its prebiotic chemistry in a key impact crater.