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Webinar: Dragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander for Saturn’s Moon Titan
Webinar about truly unique Dragonfly mission towards the Saturn’s moon Titan will take place on Wednesday May 12, 2021 at 4PM. A nuclear – powered drone searching for the origin of the life one and a half billion kilometers from the Earth is really one of a kind. The webinar will be dedicated to the rotorcraft that NASA will send to Saturn’s moon Titan. Our speaker will be Ralph Lorenz from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who is the author of its concept and acts as the Mission Architect of the Dragonfly project.
Abstract of webinar:
Dragonfly is NASA’s most recently selected “New Frontiers” planetary science mission, that will exploit Titan’s low gravity and dense atmosphere to fly to many different sites on Titan using eight rotors. It will explore Titan’s diverse surface composition, and perform geomorphological, meteorological and geophysical studies.
About the speaker:
Ralph Lorenz worked as an engineer for the European Space Agency on the design of the Huygens probe to Saturn’s moon Titan, and as a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, and since 2006, at the JHU Applied Physics Lab. His activities have centered on Titan, Cassini-Huygens and future missions there, but his interests include Mars, Venus, dust devils, sand dunes, and aerospace systems as well. He is associated with NASA’s InSight and Perseverance missions at Mars and the Japanese Venus orbiter Akatsuki, and is the Mission Architect for Dragonfly. He is author or co-author of nine books including ‘Lifting Titan’s Veil’, ‘Spinning Flight’, ‘Exploring Planetary Climate’ and ‘Space Systems Failures’, as well as over 300 journal publications.
Date and time of the event: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 16:00 CET (14:00 UTC)
The webinar will be teleconferenced via Zoom at
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Author: P. Bobík