Nasa is backing a new concept for small flying robots to explore caves on Saturn's moon Titan. These proposed vehicles, ...

NASA has funded an early-stage concept for spherical flying robots that could explore the hidden caves of Saturn’s moon Titan. Called SPARK Aerobots, the vehicles would use near-silent ion propulsion ...

NASA is funding an ambitious new concept that could send swarms of tiny, silent, ...

Beneath the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan is a vast underground network of caves and sinkholes that remains unexplored. Now, ...

American space agency NASA is backing an idea to send lighter-than-air robots powered by atmospheric thrusters to study the ...

Aerobots with ion thrusters will take over mission Titan to explore the inaccessible caves in the largest moon of Saturn that ...

NASA's NIAC program is funding the development of SPARK Aerobots, spherical flying robots with ion thrusters designed to ...

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NASA is funding the development of small, lighter-than-air 'aerobots' equipped with solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters.

Spherical "Aerobots" may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says is one of the most Earthlike in our solar system. Titan is covered in rivers, lakes and seas of hydrocarbons ...