| Title: | Titan Bumblebee: A 1kg Lander-Launched UAV Concept |
| Author: | Lorenz, Ralph D. |
| Abstract: | A concept for a small (~1kg) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched from a lander on Saturn's moon Titan is discussed. This battery-powered vehicle could survey an area of hundreds of square kilometers around the lander over a few hours, providing stereo imagery, boundary-layer meteorological profiles and other data. The cold, thick atmosphere on low-gravity Titan makes a fixed- or moving-wing vehicle easy to fly, but requires substantial energy to keep it warm, a situation similar to terrestrial bumblebees and a similar flight configuration may therefore be appropriate. |
| Description: |
This presentation was part of the session : Probe Missions to the Giant Planets, Titan and Venus Sixth International Planetary Probe Workshop |
| Type: | Proceedings |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26341 |
| Date: | 2008-06-24 |
| Contributor: | Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Relation: | IPPW08. Probe Missions to the Giant Planets, Titan and Venus |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
UAV Thermal design Aircraft design |
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