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Felipe Ruiz with Dragonfly's first production rotor

Felipe Ruiz with Dragonfly's first production rotor
Felipe Ruiz with Dragonfly's first production rotor Felipe Ruiz, Dragonfly's rotor lead engineer, poses with the first production rotor fresh off the mill at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Each of Dragonfly's rotors measures 1.35 meters in diameter and is machined monolithically from a single block of aluminum, featuring hollow internal blade cavities carefully engineered to optimize mass and rotational inertia for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL