{"id":21871,"date":"2023-10-25T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-dragonfly-space-drone-gets-more-wind-tunnel-testing-treatment\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:14:41","slug":"nasas-dragonfly-space-drone-gets-more-wind-tunnel-testing-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-dragonfly-space-drone-gets-more-wind-tunnel-testing-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Dragonfly space-drone gets more wind tunnel testing treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dragonfly tests flight on Titan<\/h2>\n

The idea is to take everything that can be done on one of NASA\u2019s car-sized Martian rovers but giving it the ability to traverse much longer distances, faster. So how do you do that? Well you stick some rotors on it and let it fly!<\/p>\n

Dragonfly intends to explore Saturn\u2019s moon Titan as a car-sized, nuclear-powered drone. Yeah you hear that right, NASA plans to send a nuclear powered drone to a moon that has its own atmosphere. It turns out Titan\u2019s low gravity, thick atmosphere, and low wind makes it pretty easy to fly there.<\/p>\n

To get ready for that day, NASA and the Johns Hopkin\u2019s Applied Physics Laboratory have been testing mockups in wind tunnels. Just recently APL conducted some tests in NASA Langley\u2019s 14 by 22 foot subsonic tunnel.<\/p>\n

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