Honeybee Robotics has been developing robots for several years, especially for space exploration. In recent months, the company has been working on a flying robot capable of landing on rocks and analyzing them.
Honeybee has developed a range of high-performance planetary technologies, including excavation systems, surface geotechnical drilling, exploration and sampling exercises at a depth of 1 to 2 meters, deep drilling under the surface, sample processing, geotechnical systems or sensors, and instruments.
The Dragonfly robot is one of the latest achievements from Honeybee Robotics, and by itself brings together a good part of the company’s expertise.
Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will explore the great moon of Saturn, Titan. The sampling system called Draco ( Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics )will extract materials from the surface of Titan and deliver them to theDraMS ( Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer, supplied by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ). HoneybeeRobotics will build the end-to-end DrACO system (including hardware, avionics and flight software) and will operate it once the Dragonfly lands on Titan in 2034.
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