{"id":16267,"date":"2015-08-18T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=16267"},"modified":"2015-08-18T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:17:08","slug":"using-drones-to-explore-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/using-drones-to-explore-space","title":{"rendered":"Using drones to explore space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time ago I was wondering why not to use drones (<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> (named for that concrete application Extreme Access Flyers) to explore the space, to reach new planets, asteroids \u2026 it would be exciting \u2026 rovers are limited in action, so what if we make it airborne? Once in space, why not to send a drone or a swarm of them from the main spaceship to explore a new planet? They could interact, share capabilities, morph, etc.<\/p>\n<p>While the economy looks more or less promising for civil and military, there is still a long path to walk \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTeal Group\u2019s 2015 market study estimates that UAV production will soar from current worldwide UAV production of $4 billion annually to $14 billion, totaling $93 billion in the next ten years. Military UAV research spending would add another $30 billion over the decade.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suasnews.com\/2015\/08\/37903\/teal-group-predicts-worldwide-uav-production-will-total-93-billion-in-its-2015-uav-market-profile-and-forecast\/\">http:\/\/www.suasnews.com\/2015\/08\/37903\/teal-group-predicts-wo\u2026-forecast\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now NASA pursues the aim of using drones to overcome the problems of rovers \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/31\/space-drones-mars-moon-asteroid\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/31\/space-drones-mars-moon-asteroid\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/extreme-access-flyer-to-take-planetary-exploration-airborne\/\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/extreme-access-flyer-to-take-pla\u2026-airborne\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> Using the word drone as it is more commonly used in society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ad Astra!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time ago I was wondering why not to use drones (\u2022 (named for that concrete application Extreme Access Flyers) to explore the space, to reach new planets, asteroids \u2026 it would be exciting \u2026 rovers are limited in action, so what if we make it airborne? Once in space, why not to send a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,36,1470,14,1488,39,38,20,1522,8],"tags":[499],"class_list":["post-16267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-automation","category-defense","category-drones","category-economics","category-engineering","category-futurism","category-innovation","category-space","tag-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}