Description

Jake and Anthony are joined by Daniel Drew of the University of Hawaiʻi to talk about SPARK, his concept for exploring Titan’s caves with aerobots powered by solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters. Seriously.

Topics

• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 258 - Not a Space Guy (with Daniel Drew) - YouTube
• SPARK
• This Crazy Robot Could Explore the CAVES of Titan [NIAC 2026] - YouTube
• Huygens's descent to Titan's surface - YouTube
• Oryctes rhinoceros - Wikipedia
• Spotted lanternfly - Wikipedia
• Spotted Lanternfly Alert | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Here’s Why You Should Kill Spotted Lanternflies - The New York Times

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• Daniel S. Drew - University of Hawaii
• The Drew Research Lab

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• Anthony Colangelo (@acolangelo) | Twitter
• Anthony Colangelo (@acolangelo@jawns.club) - jawns.club 🐘

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