Dragonfly and Viper-robots are the next-generation tools for space research.

The idea for the Dragonfly drone is the idea that the Global Hawk drones can equip with propellers. That is used in quadcopters. Those propellers that can be pulled in could give Global Hawk the VTOL ability. Those propellers lift Global Hawk, and then it can start to use its main engine. Today Global Hawk is an old fashion concept. But it can be used in civil missions.

Dragonfly is the drone that could search for life from Titan. The drone is also able to operate on any planet with an atmosphere or those highly sophisticated tools can also "fly" in oceans. That means the Dragonfly-type drone can also swim in hydrocarbon oceans on the giant moon Titan.

The Dragonfly-type drones could also take samples from the gas planet's atmosphere. In that kind of system, the drone can have a rocket engine that can use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as fuels. That drone can drop into the gas giant's atmosphere. There is can dive deeper and take that sample. Then those propellers rise the drone as high as possible. And then chemical rocket takes it to the mothership probe.

"An RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft like the one shown is currently flying non-military mapping missions over South, Central America, and the Caribbean at the request of partner nations in the region". (Wikipedia/Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk)

"Artist’s Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan’s organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL" (ScitechDaily.com/NASA Dragonfly Bound for Saturn’s Giant Moon Titan Could Reveal Chemistry Leading to Life)

"An artist’s concept of the completed design of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. VIPER will get a close-up view of the location and concentration of ice and other resources at the Moon’s South Pole, bringing us a significant step closer to NASA’s ultimate goal of a long-term presence on the Moon – making it possible to eventually explore Mars and beyond. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter" (ScitechDaily.com/NASA Begins Building VIPER – Its First Robotic Moon Rover)

The Viper is NASA's first automatically operating Lunar vehicle. It looks like the SWAT team's conceptual bomb-disposal robot. That SWAT-team assistance robot is moving the vacuum chamber. In a vacuum, the pressure impact of detonators is not very powerful. And that makes it possible to take evidence from the microcircuits and other hardware that is used in the bomb.

These kinds of vehicles can also operate in Antarctica and other difficult places. The large-scale version of the Dragonfly drone can carry those ground-moving vehicles also into remote islands and other dangerous positions. Both of those drones can also operate in underwater conditions, which makes them very interesting tools for research and intelligence missions.

Both of those probes can also operate on Earth. They can search for unknown species in remote and dangerous areas. And they can operate as guards for national parks. But the same systems that can operate unseen can use in intelligence missions. Those systems can take images as well as things like whales and submarines. They can operate for many years and because operators are sitting in their operational center, they are not risking their health in those operations.

https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-begins-building-viper-its-first-robotic-moon-rover/

https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-dragonfly-bound-for-saturns-giant-moon-titan-could-reveal-chemistry-leading-to-life/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk

MIT's tractor beam can make the new types of SASER systems possible

"This chip-based "tractor-beam," which uses an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells, could help biologists study the mechanisms of diseases."(Interesting Engineering, MIT’s Star Wars-inspired ‘tractor beam’ uses light to capture, manipulate cells) MIT's tractor beam can make the new types of SASER systems possible. The tractor beam just hovers the nanoparticle in air or medium, and then the laser or some other electromagnetic system transports oscillation into those particles. The ability to make cells and other particles hover in the system makes it possible to create particles whose energy level or resonance frequencies are accurately calculated things. That thing makes it possible to create things that transmit wave movement accurately and cleanly. This is one version of the use of a tractor beam. Modern tractor beams are like acoustic tweezers where sound waves lock the object in its cr

The new observations tell that the thunderstorms form gamma-rays. That could make gamma-ray lasers possible.

"An illustration of NASA’s research plane ER-2 flying over thunderstorms. Credit: University of Bergen / Mount Visual (CC BY 4.0), edited" (ScitechDaily, Surprising Discovery: NASA’s Retrofitted U2 Spy Plane Reveals Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive) The new observations tell that the thunderstorms form gamma-rays. That could make gamma-ray lasers possible. The process has been observed by the NASA (Lockheed) ER-2 research plane, which is a modified U-2 spy plane. The gamma-ray formation in thunderstorms. Where lightning and electric fields release electrons that impact the air molecules and water droplets is an interesting thing. That thing opens the route to solving many mysteries. "The general physics behind how thunderstorms create high-energy flashes of gamma radiation is not a mystery. As thunderstorms develop, swirling drafts drive water droplets, hail, and ice into a mixture that creates an electric charge much like rubbing a balloon on your shirt. Pos

Chinese innovations and space lasers are interesting combinations.

Above: "Tiangong is China's operational space station located in low Earth orbit. (Image credit: Alejomiranda via Getty Images)" (Scpace.com, China's space station, Tiangong: A complete guide) Chinese are close to making nuclear-powered spacecraft. Almost every day, we can read about Chinese technical advances. So are, the Chinese more innovative than Western people? Or is there some kind of difference in culture and morale between Western and Chinese societies? The Chinese superiority in hypersonic technology is one of the things that tells something about the Chinese way of making things. In China, the mission means. And the only thing that means is mission. That means that things like budgets and safety orders are far different from Western standards. If some project serves the Chinese communist party and PLA (People's Liberation Army) that guarantees unlimited resources for those projects. Chinese authorities must not care about the public opinion. If we th

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