Felipe Ruiz with Dragonfly's first production rotor

Felipe Ruiz

Lead Rotor Engineer and Mechanical Implementation Lead at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

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Flying on Titan: The engineering of Dragonfly

NASA's Dragonfly mission is sending a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft to Saturn's moon Titan. Lead rotor engineer Felipe Ruiz and principal investigator Zibi Turtle from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory join us to discuss the engineering of flight on Titan with just two years to launch.