NASA’s Flying Space Balls
August 13, 2005 | In: Aircraft Aviation, Digital Cameras, Robots Cyborgs, Space Travel
Those wacky engineers and scientists at NASA have come up with another interesting little toy. The “Flying Eyeball” has been developed as a free-flying robotic inspection vehicle that will be used to assist astronauts on both the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
Called the Mini AERCam (Miniature Autonomous Extravehicular Robotic Camera), the unit uses pressurized xexon gas for propulsion and carries battery-powered cameras that will be used to perform inspections on the exteriors of the ISS and the shuttles.
Can you just imagine the explosion of voyeuristic web sites that would appear if they ever started selling these to the general public. Wow!
gizmag.com has got an excellent write-up here and you can find the actual NASA project web site here.
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