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	Aerobot biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An aerobot is an aerial robot, usually used in the context of an unmanned space probe.
		An aerobot would be able to penetrate this haze to study the moon's mysterious surface and search for complex organic molecules.
		A Jupiter aerobot might also drop sondes deep into the atmosphere and relay their data back to an orbiter until the sondes are destroyed by temperature and pressure.
	aerobot.biography.ms (2531 words)

	Flying research
		Not only can aerobots be used for terrain mapping and surface/sub-surface composition surveying, they could also be used for the transportation and deployment of science packages or even microrovers at geographically separate sites.
		Interest in aerobots for planetary exploration is increasing due to the ability to traverse large areas of a planet's surface rapidly, when compared to a rover vehicle.
		With limited resources of memory and power on a planetary aerobot, the main problem is the economic storage and use of images acquired, until communication with an orbitor can be established, during which the data can be uploaded.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~dcswww/Public/Recruitment/newsletter/2004/aerobot.php (618 words)

	Dave Barnes' Personal Home Page: Aerobot Research
		Mars, Venus, Titan and Jupiter), aerobots are likely to provide a practical solution to the problem of extended planetary surface coverage for terrain mapping, and surface/sub-surface composition surveying.
		The simplest aerobots are unmanned balloons and the first to visit other planets were the two French/ Russian Vega balloons, Venus Vega, that explored the atmosphere of Venus for two days in 1985.
		An autonomous planetary aerobot must be able to determine its position, altitude, and velocity, acquire scientific data, actively control its altitude and direction, and land at designated surface sites.
	users.aber.ac.uk /dpb/aerobots.html (782 words)

	Aerobot airdata measurement for planetary exploration
		Aerobots in comparison have no such limitations as long as there is an atmosphere.
		Such data can be used both for aerobot control and planetary science purposes, for example, to understand the role of aeolian processes upon the formation of these gully land-forms.
		One requirement of an aerobot for planetary exploration is the ability to perform meteorological measurements.
	www.aber.ac.uk /compsci/Public/Recruitment/newsletter/Spring2001/airdataMeasurement.php (687 words)

	Aerobot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While these tests and experiments were going on, JPL performed a number of speculative studies for planetary aerobot missionsto Mars, Venus, Saturn 's moon Titan, and the Outer Planets.
		An aerobot would be able to penetrate this haze to study the moon's mysterious surface and search for complex organicmolecules.
		A Jupiter aerobot might also dropsondes deep into the atmosphere and relay their data back to an orbiter until the sondes are destroyed by temperature andpressure.
	www.therfcc.org /aerobot-46100.html (2508 words)

	bwtf.com: Ben's World of Transformers (Playskool Go-Bots Transformers)
		Aerobot is mostly made up of tubular structures, from his turbine hands, to his booster engine legs and his rounded cockpit chest.
		Aerobot is electronic, and has speech and lights.
		Aerobot's primary color is blue, but white and silver are used for detailing.
	www.bwtf.com /play/aerobot (659 words)

	Honey, They've Shrunk the Rover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But the aerobots JPL is designing (and for which it will launch a test bed early this year) are much more sophisticated.
		Thus, explains JPL aerobot systems engineer Aaron Bachelder, they will be able to hover for some time (perhaps an hour or so above Venus, because of the fierce heat, around 460 degrees Celsius on its surface).
		NASA was figuring on Venus as the first aerobot destination, since its heat-too great for ground rovers-makes that planet an optimal choice for the balloons.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/98/01/scigliano0198.5.asp (604 words)

	Balloons For Planetary Exploration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Once operational, the aerobot will be largely on its own and will have to conduct its mission autonomously, accepting only general commands over its long communications link to Earth.
		The aerobot will have to determine its position in three dimensions; acquire and store science data; perform flight control by varying its altitude; and possibly make landings at specific sites to perform close-up investigations.
		An S-band communications antenna was mounted on the rim of the basket, and a radar antenna for surface studies was fitted on a mast mounted on the vessel.
	www.vectorsite.net /avabot.html (3724 words)

	Turns of Phrase: Aerobot
		aerobot is a helium-filled balloon fitted with heaters that are powered by solar cells.
		The Martian aerobot will be based on a “superpressure” helium balloon, designed to maintain a constant volume so that its height above ground can be controlled by on-board intelligence rather than external temperature.
		If they prove themselves on Mars, balloons—or aerobots, as lighter-than-air craft are known in the space business—could be sent to Venus, to Saturn’s moon Titan and beyond.
	www.quinion.com /words/turnsofphrase/tp-aer1.htm (302 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The aerobot is a concept presented by one of the six candidates being interviewed for two openings in the engineering department.
		The concept behind the aerobot, said Heun, is a gondola anchored below a balloon or blimp filled with a gas – a refrigerant, for example – which is capable of changing between liquid and gas.
		But what makes the aerobot so useful is that the same device can be made to descend to the ground level of a planet like Mars or Venus to do rock and soil analyses, an area which has always been the sole domain of planetary rovers.
	www-stu.calvin.edu /chimes/000331/news_03.html (1154 words)

	Aerobot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Un concepto, conocido como la misión de Titan Aerobot Multisite (TAM), implica un globo del reversible-li'quido llenado del argón que podría descender de alta altitud a la superficie de la luna, para realizar mediciones, y después para levantarse otra vez a la alta altitud para realizar mediciones y movimiento a un diverso sitio.
		Un aerobot de Júpiter pudo operatorio en las altitudes donde la presión de aire se extiende a partir de la una a diez atmósferas, cayendo de vez en cuando más bajo para los estudios detallados.
		Un aerobot de Júpiter pudo también caer sondes profundamente en la atmósfera y retransmitir sus datos de nuevo a un orbiter por hasta que los sondes son destruidos temperatura y presión.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ae/Aerobot.htm (2899 words)

	Solo Spirit: About the Aerobot Science Payload
		The Aerobot Science Payload on the Solo Spirit Mission is on loan from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
		The Aerobot heading parameter is the compass direction in which Solo Spirit is traveling, expressed as 0 to 360 degrees clockwise from north.
		The values of UTC in the Aerobot Science Payload data files and graphs are derived from the Aerobot GPS instrument.
	solospirit.wustl.edu /SoloSpirit2/sci_about.htm (1894 words)

	Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Today's Aerobots – based on the airframes of remote-controlled crop-dusting or hobbyist helicopters – are a tour-de-force of computer vision, embedded software, and control systems.
		For instance, a continuous swarm of Aerobots could dump water on a forest fire without the risk of collision in dense smoke, he says.
		While real-world Aerobot applications are still several years away, Koo is looking at other potential benefits of his embedded software and control systems research.
	www-bioeng.berkeley.edu /labnotes/0802/eye.html (774 words)

	Aerobotics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aerobots use the ducted fan and stabilization and control technology developed by Moller to provide vertical takeoff and landing, hover, and translation ability.
		Aerobots are capable of operating entirely autonomously as airborne robots, or semi-autonomously as remotely controlled aerial platforms.
		A simple to operate, stable, aerial platform, Moller Aerobots are ideally suited for remote sensing, observation, inspection, and photography.
	www.moller.com /aerobot (123 words)

	Biology News: Aerobot aims for Titan
		He and his colleagues think that their aerobot could spend months cruising through the moon's atmosphere, mapping the surface and collecting samples.
		While his team works on the aerobot's brains, a sister project at the Jet Propulsion Lab is developing a tough helium balloon that could be flown to Titan and inflated on arrival.
		This summer, aerobot's team got further funding to develop a full mission proposal, which may lead to a launch in 2012.
	www.bioedonline.org /news/news.cfm?art=1993 (690 words)

	Merrill Lynch - Markets - /markets_news_story/0,2263,{C5062DD8-A05A-4C58-AE56-5E82B7CD93CC},00.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		PAUSE aerobots are unmanned scientific exploration vehicles (airborne robots) designed to float like balloons for up to several months in the atmosphere of planets and moons, and are equipped to conduct sophisticated observational programs.
		PAUSE aerobots consist of a zero-pressure balloon and a prototype Mars aerobot science micro-gondola, which includes three OmniVision imagers, multiple temperature sensors, a pressure sensor, a GPS receiver, a 1GB data storage device, and a radio modem.
		The aerobot was recently deployed twice in the Earth's stratosphere at 35 kilometers (21.9 miles) to simulate the environment on Mars.
	askmerrill.ml.com /markets_news_story/1,2263,{C5062DD8-A05A-4C58-AE56-5E82B7CD93CC},00.html (770 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rank: 3 A Venus aerobot is a very interesting idea that can intellegently address critical scientific issues at reasonable cost.
		Also, I think that the author of this proposal has a good grasp of what is feasible on a finite budget (i.e., they didn't suggest a sample return like everyone else).
		Rank: 0 An interesting idea but given the challenges of the density, pressure, and temperature of the Venusian atmosphere I think this is outside of the scope of funding.
	www.lpl.arizona.edu /grad/teamX/missions/Ve1.txt (379 words)

	Encyclopedia: Balloon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Russian space probe Vega abandoned in 1984 two aerobots in the atmosphere of Venus, from which signals could be received two days long.
		The Vega mission was a Venus mission which also took advantage of the appearance of Comet Halley in 1986.
		A rockoon (derived from the terms rocket and balloon) was an extension to the rocket, which allowed the rocket to achieve further distance.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Balloon (2458 words)

	NASA IS/AR Task: Aerobot Autonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Autonomy technologies for a Titan aerobot are required to address accurate and safe flight control, takeoff, landing and hovering; perception-based hazard detection and avoidance; local and global mapping for long-range mission planning; science target acquisition, tracking and go-to capabilities; and deployment/recovery of surface probes and sampling systems.
		Similar aerobots, adapted for high temperatures, can be used at Venus, and the control techniques may apply to submarine explorers as well.
		Aerobot vehicle dynamics model; teleoperated instrumented outdoor aerobot flight control.
	is.arc.nasa.gov /AR/tasks/AeroAut.html (546 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Venus Entry Probe
		In order to provide regional and global context of the in-situ measurements, it is necessary for the remote sensing atmospheric investigations to commence prior to the aerobot deployment.
		One of the key aspects is the testing and qualification of heat shield materials, such as Carbon-Phenolic, that allow a steep entry into the dense Venus atmosphere.
		Aerobot technology: The balloon envelope, gas storage and power generation are crucial items for the aerobot:
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35987 (816 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As with Aerobot, the cockpit is the trigger for most of the sounds.
		The underside bits are identical in mold to Aerobot, while the upper parts (top of cockpit, wings, top of fuselage and stabilizers) are all new.
		Same poseability as Aerobot: arms can raise from the sides, there's a swivel above the elbow so the arms can be posed a bit, and the hips are ratcheting universal joints.
	www.eyrie.org /~dvandom/BW/123/Silverbolt (700 words)

	April/May 2002, Transporter
		Aerobots use the ducted fan, and stabilization and control technologies, to supply vertical takeoffs, landings, hovering, and spatial positioning capabilities.
		The Aerobot performs vertical takeoff and landing functionalities from unimproved sites—without special launch or recovery equipment—and it hovers at a fixed point or moves horizontally at moderate speeds.
		The aerodynamics available on the Aerobot make it possible to fly the aerial robot up close to a structure for inspection without the risk of damage to either the structure or the robot.
	www.tfhrc.gov /trnsptr/apr02/apr02.htm (2909 words)

	NASA 'aerobot' to float on Titan-10/08/2004-Flight International
		A half-scale aerobot demonstrator has been built and has been undergoing testing at the Edwards AFB test complex in California for the past year.
		The Titan aerobot would carry two 1m (3ft) propellers, with electric power supplied from a radioisotope thermal generator.
		The aerobot could piggy-back a ride to the outer solar system on one of several different missions being explored by NASA, including the planned Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter.
	www.flightinternational.com /FALANDING_185741.htm (375 words)

	Solo Spirit / Steve Fossett: Press Release of 9/25/97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eventually, a version of the NASA prototype may fly in the atmosphere of Mars or Venus on a robotic balloon called an aerobot.
		Like Fossett's balloon, the aerobot would vary its altitude to steer through the atmosphere.
		The scientific payload is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth.
	www.wustl.edu /1997-99web/solo/pr12-08-97.html (540 words)

	Balloons For Planetary Exploration
		MABTEX could be followed in turn by phase-three Mars aerobot, a small solar-powered blimp named "MASEPA (Mars Solar Electric Propelled Aerobot)".
		A technology validation experiment designated "VEBTEX (Venus Aerobot Technology Experiment)" has been considered, but the focus appears to have been more on full operational missions.
		One mission concept, known as "VAMS (Venus Aerobot Multisonde)", envisions an aerobot operating at altitudes above 50 kilometers (31 miles) that would drop surface probes, or "sondes", onto specific surface targets.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avabot.html (3728 words)

	USATODAY.com - Small satellites may play big role in future missions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Phipps said his team spent 18 months and several hundred-thousand Euros developing a mission concept featuring two orbiters packed with miniaturized instruments and a tiny aerobot that would be dropped into Venus' corrosive atmosphere.
		The aerobot, consisting of an instrument-laden gondola suspended from a balloon, would add about 90 kilograms of mass to one of the orbiters, a data relay satellite that would be placed in a highly elliptical orbit around Venus.
		The aerobot would be dropped into Venus' atmosphere where it would float at an altitude of 55 kilometers, circumnavigating the planet several times during its projected 15- to 22-day mission.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-08-09-small-satellites_x.htm (1029 words)

	Gunhed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the end, Aerobot and Gunhead have a final showdown at the Kyro Dome.
		Aerobot kicks Gunhead's ass (as it should, especially since Aerobot has a hover skirt and can change size, from the same size of Gunhed to 6 times the size of Gunhed).
		Gunhed's pilot Brooklyn gets pissed Gunhed is dead, so he picks up a gun and kills Aerobot with one shot, what 15 minutes of intense shooting and explosions had just failed to do.
	www.neosoft.com /~johnkyle/movies/gunhed.html (903 words)

	Aerobot: an Autonomous Airship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alberto Elfes and a NASA team as a testbed for a potential aerial planetary exploration robot.
		It would be able to cover greater distances than a ground rover but provide better images than an orbiting platform.
		Aerobot is smart enough to correct its course in wind.
	robots.net /article/1618.html (149 words)

	Aerobot (2003) - Go-Bot - www.tfu.info
		As a super-speed aircraft with metalized laser shields, he often defends Earth from above, but will adapt to any number of forms to overcome the obstacle at hand.
		Recolors: This mold was recolored from Aerobot (2002).
		Name Reuses: The name Aerobot was never reassigned.
	www.tfu.info /2003/Gobots/Aerobot/aerobot.htm (90 words)

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