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dragonfly was designed to be a
rotorcraft to explore Titan because it's
the right way to explore the Titan
environment it's the right way to make
the measurements we need to to
understand the chemistry of this ocean
world there's sand dunes there clouds we
even have methane rain there methane
rivers and lakes and seas the organic
chemistry and Titan's atmosphere and on
its surface may replicate the type of
organic chemistry we had here on earth
before life developed we want to be able
to understand how life took the step
from chemistry to biology we want to
give the scientists the chance to be a
Titan without being a Titan we want to
give them the ability to sit on
dragonfly and look at dragonfly and look
it's heightened from dragonflies
perspective we've been using augmented
reality and it makes reality different
types of immersion technologies across
all of our mission areas we are doing
projects today that look at things like
perception detection motion recognition
we're doing things in space missions
operations and looking at designs
collaborative design reviews we're
really not doing anything new except how
we're applying the technologies that
exist to exploring Titan being there
counts we look at data a lot of times
and two dimensions I think we really
think that that looking at something in
an immersive environment like this gives
a bigger picture especially for a
mission like this where we're
interacting with the environment
directly to be able to visualize through
the spacecraft's eyes the landing site
that we're choosing or to choose which
drill to use on the surface we can use
the VR technology to really be able to
put ourselves in that space we can bring
the data coming down from the spacecraft
and pull that into a digital twin sort
of situation where you've got this
digital asset that is mimicking
a physical object that's actually flying
we can take this technology and allow
the scientist and the engineers to take
a look at the information of how we're
designing it today what we intended to
do and make decisions which reduces risk
this will allow us to plan well in
advance how the integration the whole
entire lander is going to go you can
kind of envision when people put their
hands down inside is this really gonna
fit and you're doing all this before you
have hardware when you can actually make
it a change when it matters up until
this point we've never really had an
opportunity to bridge that distance
between what's happening at the mission
design level and what's happening at the
mechanical design level let's take a
look at the mm RTG inside inside the
cover so if I pull the cover off now we
can see the MM RTG exposed there I can
see all the a lot of the thermal loops
and things that capture heat and
redistribute that throughout the
interior of the spacecraft that's pretty
exciting all right so you can see the
cameras we have forward and downward
looking cameras so that we're able to
take images not only when we're on the
surface but when we're in flight so
we'll be able to look down at the
terrain that's that's beneath it's going
beneath the the rotorcraft as we're
flying from landing site to landing site
yep it's absolutely a game-changer it's
changing the human relationship to data
it's changing the human relationship to
how we interact with information it's a
very valuable tool for operations
planning in advance but also for
operational decision-making in real time
when when we're acting on the surface of
Titan
