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

<html><p>BONUS PART STARTS AT 21:56</p><p>Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: <a href="youtu.be/VqBVL2vwh04"; target="_blank">youtu.be/VqBVL2vwh04</a></p><p&… Guest: Dr. Mike Rubenstein </p><p>📜 Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn’s Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere <a href="nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/actively-steer…; target="_blank">nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/actively-steer… </a></p><p>👉 All 2026 NIAC Selections <a href="nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-studies/n…; target="_blank">nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-studies/n… 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.</p><ul><li><p>00:00 Intro </p></li><li><p>01:22 Observing Saturn's rings </p></li><li><p>05:21 A swarm of satellites </p></li><li><p>21:56 Invisible drones </p></li><li><p>29:33 Current obsessions </p></li><li><p>31:12 Final thoughts</p></li></ul><p></p></html>