We’re Sending a Flying Machine to Titan

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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NASA has given the go-ahead for Dragonfly, a flying rotorcraft that will explore Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan. Mission Principal Investigator Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle helps us celebrate. Troy Hudson tells us about the ongoing effort to rescue the Mole on Mars lander InSight. And Bruce Betts provides the latest on LightSail 2’s attempt to sail on the light of the sun. Learn more about all of this week’s topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0710-2019-troy-hudson-zibi-turtle-ls2.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're sending a flying machine to Titan this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	We're back from the LightSail to launch with a packed show for your cosmic enjoyment.
0:22.0	NASA announced on June 27th that the Dragonfly
0:26.8	rotorcraft will explore Saturn's marvelous moon.
0:30.8	We'll welcome back Principal Investigators Zibby Turtle for an update on this
0:34.5	thrilling mission and when we get to this week's what's up Bruce Betts will tell
0:39.1	us the latest news about LightSail 2. The little Cubesat is in great shape but deployment of its big
0:45.2	wings has been delayed a bit further. First though we'll check in with Troy Hudson.
0:51.7	You may remember that Troy was with us on Caltech's Beckman Auditorium stage when this happened.
0:57.0	Touchdown confirmed.
0:59.0	Yes!
1:00.0	Yes!
1:01.0	Oh! Yes! That was the November 26th 2018 landing of Insight on Mars.
1:20.0	Insight is properties package or HP cubed is even better known simply as the mole. Troy
1:35.8	Hudson is a planetary geologist and an instrument engineer at the jet propulsion
1:41.2	laboratory. He's worked very closely for years
1:44.1	with the Moles creator, the German Space Agency,
1:46.9	known as the DLR.
1:48.7	The mole ran into trouble very soon
1:50.9	after it began its attempt to hammer below the red planet's surface.
1:55.0	Attempts to get it back on track have gone slowly and carefully, but there has been progress,
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