Titan exploration beyond Cassini |
Titan exploration beyond Cassini |
Feb 7 2017, 10:42 PM
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Beyond Cassini
Two proposed future Titan missions to be presented at the 2017 LPSC conference http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1958.pdf and http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/2306.pdf promise to extend and enhance Cassini’s discoveries concerning this marvelous world. |
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Feb 9 2017, 10:14 AM
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I really like the Dragonfly proposal, but I am afraid the chance of seeing it happen is very small indeed.
It's similar to the drones most of us are familiar with now. Now constructing a multipropeller drone that will have to function in that temperature range and environment is both difficult and risky in several ways. Some metals have brittle 'ductile-to-brittle-transition'. and what substance to use as lubricant in the bearings? (Copper might be used in wiring and bearings though - if I remember correctly it's a metal that don't have the BDT transition.) Anyway I think NASA and ESA are a bit to risk aware to seriously consider this one, and for the other agencies, it's outside their capability. |
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