Tunnel Visions: Dragonfly Team Tests Rotorcraft Designs in Unique NASA Facilities

Well before NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander soars through Titan’s skies, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, are making sure their designs and models for the nuclear-powered, car-sized drone will work in a truly unique environment. Three times in the past three years, the mission team has tested its flight systems in one-of-a-kind wind tunnel facilities at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.