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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by binarymax on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:01PM (#20307756)
How does one test on earth, a drone for a different atmospheric and gravitational environment? Some great drone simulation techniques are going to come out of this project.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by dev_tty01 on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:28PM (#20308919)
No problem. Large atmospheric chamber or controlled wind tunnel. Pump the pressure up or down, change the gas mixtures, whatever. Gravity, partially support the drone's weight. NASA is good at this stuff.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by nradov on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:41AM (#20310851)
Yes that's how they tested the Mars drone.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7417

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