I assume NASA has studied this xkcd, and will not use a Cesna.
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that’s pretty cool. especially considering that
the RAD750 costs about a quarter of a million dollars
while the snapdragon chip is around 50 dollars!
also this from that:
NASA already has big plans for flying machines on other worlds. Perhaps the most intriguing of these is the Dragonfly mission to the largest of Saturn’s moons, Titan. The vehicle, which the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will build and operate, is scheduled to launch in July 2028.
It’s a bold and daring mission that seeks to fly an automobile-sized nuclear-powered drone over the organic-rich sands on Titan.
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