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

🔴 [Interview+] No YT ads. Bonus Part. FREE for everyone   / 165844581   🟣 Guest: Dr. Mike Rubenstein https://robotics.northwestern.edu/ 📜 Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn’s Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stm... 👉 All 2026 NIAC Selections https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stm... 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 Current obsessions 23:36 Final thoughts 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://www.universetoday.com/podcast Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.