NASA tests 8-rotor Dragonfly drone destined for Titan

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Tunnel Visions: Dragonfly Team Tests Rotorcraft Designs in Unique NASA Facilities NASA is taking what it’s learned from its groundbreaking Ingenuity Mars helicopter to create an even more complex flyi

ng machine to explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

Related A team of researchers led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland has the advantage of Titan’s thick atmosphere, which will be easier to fly in than Mars’ considerably thinner atmosphere. Its low gravity will also help the flying machine to stay airborne. On its latest trip to NASA Langley, the team tested a half-scale Dragonfly while focusing on two particular flight configurations: Dragonfly’s descent and transition to powered flight upon reaching Titan, and forward flight over the moon’s surface.

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