Titan Bumblebee - A 1 kg Lander-Launched UAV Concept

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Author - R.D. Lorenz

Co-Author(s) -

JBIS Volume # - 61

Page # - 118-124

Year - 2008

Keywords - Titan UAV, Titan surface exploration, Titan aeronautics

JBIS Reference Code # - 2008.61.118

Number of Pages - 7

[edit] Abstract

A concept for a small (~1 kg) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched from a lander on Saturn's moon Titan is discussed. This battery-powered vehicle could survey an area of hundreds of square kilometers around the lander over a few hours, providing stereo imagery, boundary-layer meteorological profiles and other data. The cold, thick atmosphere on low-gravity Titan makes a fixed- or moving-wing vehicle easy to fly, but requires substantial energy to keep it warm, a situation similar to terrestrial bumblebees and a similar flight configuration may therefore be appropriate.


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