The NASA atmospheric Probe made a game-changing test flight.

"An atmospheric probe model attached upside down to a quad rotor remotely piloted aircraft ascends with the Moon visible on October 22, 2024. The quad rotor aircraft released the probe above Rogers Dry Lake, a flight area adjacent NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The probe was designed and built at the center. Credit: NASA/Steve Freeman" (ScitechDaily, NASA’s Atmospheric Probe Soars in Game-Changing Test Flight)

The atmospheric probe is a small drone that dropped from the quadcopter. But it's possible that quite soon we can see far bigger models of those systems. There are both. Civil and military operators who want to get new types of drones that can carry far heavier cargo. The idea is that drone takes those crafts to 10,000 meters where they can start their engines. Those systems can give the ability for ballistic jumps for those small spacecraft. 

There is one way to turn every single aircraft in the world into a silent VTOL system. The system requires only helicopters or quadcopters that raise it up from the ground and then fly it away from the city area. Electric engine quadcopters are tools that can operate underwater or at high altitudes or even underwater missions. 

"Justin Link, left, small unmanned aircraft systems pilot; John Bodylski, atmospheric probe principal investigator; and Justin Hall, chief pilot of small unmanned aircraft systems, discuss details of the atmospheric probe flight plan on October 22, 2024. A quad rotor remotely piloted aircraft released the probe above Rogers Dry Lake, a flight area adjacent NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The probe was designed and built at the center. Credit: NASA/Steve Freeman" (ScitechDaily, NASA’s Atmospheric Probe Soars in Game-Changing Test Flight)

The nuclear-powered drones can be the size of a ship. That makes them interesting tools for other planet missions and airborne systems that should collect samples from the air or carry medical or other special teams over operational areas. 

The same system can travel underwater and rise to airborne. Theoretically, a quadcopter's size has no limits. Otherwise, drone swarms can operate as one copter. That means. Also, small drones can carry very large objects. Operators can connect drones into one entirety. And when their mission is done those quadcopters can dissolve. 

The large quadcopters can operate both civil and military launches. The thing is that the quadcopter can also carry things like cruise and why not ballistic missiles to operational areas. Or they can launch those weapons high above the ground. That means the control crew is hard to detect. The quadcopter can carry HiMARS, SLAM (Stand-off Land Attack Missile), or any other missile to the launch position and launch them. 

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The other planet missions. 

Quadcopters can also operate on other planets. And Titan moon's atmosphere and hydrocarbon oceans. The quadcopter can raise the rocket to a high atmosphere. And then it can fly to space. And that kind of system is a very interesting tool. Also for Venus missions. 

NASA's atmospheric drone is the answer to the question. How to make things like a small rocket launch silent. The solution can be a drone that pulls a rocket up from the ground. And that drone will take the spacecraft to the altitude. The atmospheric drone can carry things like Pegasus Dream Chaser and X-37B to the high atmosphere. Then, those systems can launch the vehicle. 

Venus's mission could involve drones that separate carbon from carbon dioxide. Then that futuristic jet engine system can burn that carbon back to carbon dioxide, just like the Lippisch P.13 concept. The idea is that the ramjet just separates carbon from carbon dioxide from Venus's atmosphere and then reconnects those atoms. 

The atmospheric drone can also operate at the other planet's atmosphere if the system is well-protected against heat. That system can raise rockets high above Venus's clouds. It can also transport Venus's surface samples to the craft that is waiting to return to Earth. 

The system can involve fast jet drones that can separate carbon and oxygen from Venus's atmosphere. Then those jet-engine drones will just burn that carbon back to carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. Those drones can research large areas of that planet. 

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-atmospheric-probe-soars-in-game-changing-test-flight/

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