A small experimental aircraft dubbed Ingenuity rose off the Martian dirt and into history on April 19, 2021. Dragonfly, a rotorcraft on the scale of a compact vehicle, is set to take the next stage in the mid-2030s. It will arrive on Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, to start humankind’s first expedition there. The nightmarishly hot planet Venus, with its high temperature, humidity, and corrosive environment, poses the greatest difficulty — and maybe the biggest chance – for extraterrestrial flight. Teddy Tzanetos, a robotics technologist in the Aerial Mobility Group and the project manager for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, is already designing the next generation of Martian helicopters.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220207-the-drones-that-will-fly-in-alien-skies
