
Daniel Drew
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, leading the Drew Research Lab and the NASA NIAC-funded SPARK project for ion-propelled aerobots exploring Titan's caves.
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Sep 30, 2026
2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 1 — Nuclear sensors and cave explorers
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Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Oh, you've said a lot about, you know, tendentially what all of these things do, but if we fit it all together, what is

Daniel DrewGUEST
So, it's a lighter-than-air vehicle platform with distributed propulsion across its surface.
7 MINS LATER
258 - Not a Space Guy (with Daniel Drew)
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25:07So what are the pieces of this that are... are applicable outside of titan 2 right because there's obviously the the autonomous control some of the navigation work that you need to do like i would imagine some of that stuff percolates out to other planetary missions pretty well or even earth use cases are there components there that you're looking at to be more genericized or are you like just this is the titan mobile

Daniel DrewGUEST
I guess there's the ion thrusters, the balloon concept, and then there's the rest of the mission.

Daniel DrewGUEST
And some of the autonomy work and doing communications and power from inside a cave that carries over.
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59:17Do you have anything to plug? Do you want to talk about Hawaii stuff? Which people know about you?