Flying on Titan: The engineering of Dragonfly
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Flying on Titan: The engineering of Dragonfly

Jun 17, 2026
59:45
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NASA's Dragonfly mission is sending a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft to Saturn's moon Titan. Lead rotor engineer Felipe Ruiz and principal investigator Zibi Turtle from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory join us to discuss the engineering of flight on Titan with just two years to launch.

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The Planetary Society
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full
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audio/mpeg

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