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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by Isamu on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:15PM (#18948306)
An octocopter, from the renderings.

They call it a dual-quadcopter. That may indicate that the configuration is for control redundancy, as well as increased lift and compactness.

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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by xtagon on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:24PM (#18949271)
Interesting, I've never heard it referred to as "dual-quadcopter". It's a common configuration in the model aircraft hobby where it's referred to as "X8" octocopter. I supposed "X8" doesn't really describe their renderings though, since the airframe doesn't really look like an X.
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