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NASA’s building a nuclear-powered drone the size of a car.
It’s called the Dragonfly rotorcraft lander, designed to one day zip across Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. To prepare it for the icy moon’s dense atmosphere, NASA and Johns Hopkins APL engineers have already tested a smaller model in a subsonic wind tunnel. The lander is supposed to reach Titan in the mid 2030s, where it’ll be used to study the origins of life.
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