[Interview+] Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes, NIAC 2026

BONUS PART STARTS AT 21:56

Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VqBVL2vwh04

🟣 Guest: Dr. Mike Rubenstein

📜 Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn’s Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/actively-steerable-femtosat-constellations-for-in-situ-exploration-of-saturns-rings-atmosphere-and-magnetosphere/

👉 All 2026 NIAC Selections https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-studies/niac-2026-selections/

Saturn's rings are dense. Sending one flagship probe through them makes no sense. It'll most probably be lost. But sending a swarm of small cheap probes does. Even if a lot of them won't survive, you're still getting lots of data. This is exactly what this NIAC project is proposing.

00:00 Intro
01:22 Observing Saturn's rings
05:21 A swarm of satellites
21:56 Invisible drones
29:33 Current obsessions
31:12 Final thoughts

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BONUS PART STARTS AT 21:56

Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VqBVL2vwh04

🟣 Guest: Dr. Mike Rubenstein

👉 All 2026 NIAC Selections https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-studies/niac-2026-selections/

00:00 Intro
01:22 Observing Saturn's rings
05:21 A swarm of satellites
21:56 Invisible drones
29:33 Current obsessions
31:12 Final thoughts

[Interview+] Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes, NIAC 2026

[Interview+] How Much Gravity Is Too Much To Escape A Planet?

[Q&A+] Can We Turn The Entire Moon Into a Giant Datacenter?

[Space Bites+] Swift Will Now Inevitably Die // China Lands a Rocket (again) // Starship Survived

[Q&A+] Earth’s True Path Through The Galaxy | Q&A 451

[Q&A+] How Bad Would a Super Solar Storm Be for The Moon Base? | Q&A 450

[Space Bites+] Bad News for Europa Exploration // Watching Pluto’s Atmosphere Fade Away // Auroras on Mars

[Q&A+] Alien Megastructures or Microbes?

[Q&A+] Best Way For The Universe To End

[Space Bites+] SpaceX Slams Into The Moon // Liquid on Pluto // Venus Isn’t Dead

[Q&A+] Can We Detect Gravitational Waves from the Big Bang Itself?

[Interview+] Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes, NIAC 2026

[Interview+] How Much Gravity Is Too Much To Escape A Planet?

[Q&A+] Can We Turn The Entire Moon Into a Giant Datacenter?

[Space Bites+] Swift Will Now Inevitably Die // China Lands a Rocket (again) // Starship Survived

[Q&A+] Earth’s True Path Through The Galaxy | Q&A 451

[Q&A+] How Bad Would a Super Solar Storm Be for The Moon Base? | Q&A 450

[Space Bites+] Bad News for Europa Exploration // Watching Pluto’s Atmosphere Fade Away // Auroras on Mars

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[Q&A+] Best Way For The Universe To End

[Space Bites+] SpaceX Slams Into The Moon // Liquid on Pluto // Venus Isn’t Dead

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