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Dr. Ken Lui
Events/Program Chair, LA, AIAA Los Angeles Las Vegas section American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles - Las Vegas Section
949-426-8175
events.aiaalalv@gmail.com
AIAA LA-LV e-Section Meeting / e-Town Hall Meeting
September 25, 2021, 10 AM PDT (US and Canada)
an AIAA LA-LV Zoom webinar
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The Dragonfly Mission to Titan
by
Dr. Ralph Lorenz
Principal Professional Staff
Applied Physics Lab., Johns Hopkins University
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Saturn's giant moon Titan has been revealed to be remarkably Earth-like, with a landscape of vast dunefields, river channels and lakes under a smoggy sky punctuated by methane downpours. Titan serves as a frigid laboratory in which the same processes that shape our own planet can be seen in action under exotic conditions. Titan has a rich inventory of complex organic molecules that may provide clues how the building blocks of life are assembled. NASA recently selected APL's Dragonfly mission concept as the next $1B-class New Frontiers mission to launch in 2027, to arrive in the mid-2030s.
Dragonfly is an octocopter lander, able to repeatedly take off and fly tens of kilometers in Titan's dense atmosphere and low gravity to sample the surface in a wide range of geological settings. This presentation will describe the mission and how the concept was developed.
