NASA explains why mission to Titan trades wheels for helicopter blades

NASA explains why mission to Titan trades wheels for helicopter blades

By trading wheels for helicopter blades, NASA is upping its game for the Dragonfly mission, a flying machine intended to explore Titan, an icy moon of Saturn. The team has started assembling the honeycomb panels for the aircraft's main body, completed a series of drop tests on the parachute system, and demonstrated that its compact chemistry lab can pick out tiny amounts of target molecules in test samples.This NASA robot, expected to launch as …