DraMS-GC/DRAGONFLY, for which LIRA performs all bakeout campaigns (high-temperature vacuum drying with outgassing measurement using a TQCM microbalance) of the instrument’s subsystems (the gas chromatograph) before integration.
We have already completed seven bakeout campaigns of flight subsystems since May 2025, and the 8th is taking place this week at LIRA.
The Dragonfly mission is an ambitious NASA project to send an autonomous drone to explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its launch is scheduled for July 2028, with arrival on Titan in 2034, to study the complex chemistry and conditions that could shed light on the origin of life.
