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John Bodylski holds a balsa wood model of his proposed aircraft that could be an atmospheric probe. Directly in front of him is a fully assembled version of the aircraft and a large section of a second prototype at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Credit: NASA/Steve Freeman
“We are looking to take an idea to flight and show that a lifting body aircraft can fly as a probe at this scale – that it can be stable, that components can be integrated into the probe, and that the aircraft can achieve some amount of lift,” said John Bodylski, the principal investigator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.
The idea behind the concept is that a lifting body aircraft relies on its unique blunt shape for lift, rather than wings. Bodylski and his team have designed two lifting body aircraft, both of which are about 70 cm long, and 60 cm wide. One is almost built and ready for flight.several designs to demonstrate
While the Space Shuttle and other human-carrying lifting body vehicles had inherent issues, even back in the 1960’s planetary scientists realized the concept could be more feasible for smaller uncrewed probes.that current small atmospheric probes such as CubeSats, gather and transmit data for about 40 minutes and can take in approximately 10 data points before their parent satellite is out of range.
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