Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:36 pm
#1841698
This isn't the only off-world rotorcraft that NASA are looking at. Dragonfly is an octocopter UAS scheduled to fly on Saturn's moon Titan from 2034 (launching in 2026). NASA flew an earthbound development vehicle 3 years ago.
Dragonfly will, to a degree, have the opposite issue to Ingenuity in that the atmosphere on Titan is denser than that of Earth (~1.45 atmospheres) - although the delta is not so dramatic as on Mars.
Dragonfly will, to a degree, have the opposite issue to Ingenuity in that the atmosphere on Titan is denser than that of Earth (~1.45 atmospheres) - although the delta is not so dramatic as on Mars.