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Artemis 2 is going well. The White House proposes to cut back NASA's budget. Webb looks at two protoplanetary systems. An entirely new class of stars. And in Space Bites Plus, Japan is planning a comet return mission.
SLS IR Video: images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-20260401-MH-SFL01-0001-Artemis_II_UCS9_NIR_QUICKLOOK_STABILIZED-M19183/KSC-20260401-MH-SFL01-0001-Artemis_II_UCS9_NIR_QUICKLOOK_STABILIZED-M19183~large.mp4
00:00 Intro
00:18 Artemis 2 is going really well
universetoday.com/articles/artemis-ii-mission-shares-first-photo-of-earth
universetoday.com/articles/nasa-releases-images-of-artemis-iis-flight-behind-the-moon
07:20 NASA Budget Cuts Amid Artemis 2 and Ignition Announcements
planetary.org/articles/what-is-the-skinny-budget-and-what-does-it-mean-for-nasa
09:36 Two Planets Forming
universetoday.com/articles/webbs-picture-of-the-month-features-two-planet-forming-disks-and-a-few-possible-planets
11:00 New Class of Star
universetoday.com/articles/a-new-class-of-star-merger-remnant
13:34 Idea for a Mercury Rover
universetoday.com/articles/a-mercury-rover-could-explore-the-planet-by-sticking-to-the-terminator
16:09 Vote results
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16:44 SuperCDMS
universetoday.com/articles/supercdm-experiment-reaches-critical-temperature-bringing-it-one-step-closer-to-detecting-dark-matte
18:22 JWST's Hidden Treasure
universetoday.com/articles/jwst-spies-once-hidden-treasures-in-the-w51-starbirth-crche
20:03 More space news
21:22 Most influential space moments
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Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
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Artemis 2 is going well. The White House proposes to cut back NASA's budget. Webb looks at two protoplanetary systems. An entirely new class of stars. And in Space Bites Plus, Japan is planning a comet return mission.
SLS IR Video: images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-20260401-MH-SFL01-0001-Artemis_II_UCS9_NIR_QUICKLOOK_STABILIZED-M19183/KSC-20260401-MH-SFL01-0001-Artemis_II_UCS9_NIR_QUICKLOOK_STABILIZED-M19183~large.mp4
00:00 Intro
00:18 Artemis 2 is going really well
universetoday.com/articles/artemis-ii-mission-shares-first-photo-of-earth
universetoday.com/articles/nasa-releases-images-of-artemis-iis-flight-behind-the-moon
07:20 NASA Budget Cuts Amid Artemis 2 and Ignition Announcements
planetary.org/articles/what-is-the-skinny-budget-and-what-does-it-mean-for-nasa
09:36 Two Planets Forming
universetoday.com/articles/webbs-picture-of-the-month-features-two-planet-forming-disks-and-a-few-possible-planets
11:00 New Class of Star
universetoday.com/articles/a-new-class-of-star-merger-remnant
13:34 Idea for a Mercury Rover
universetoday.com/articles/a-mercury-rover-could-explore-the-planet-by-sticking-to-the-terminator
16:09 Vote results
youtube.com/@frasercain/posts
16:44 SuperCDMS
universetoday.com/articles/supercdm-experiment-reaches-critical-temperature-bringing-it-one-step-closer-to-detecting-dark-matte
18:22 JWST's Hidden Treasure
universetoday.com/articles/jwst-spies-once-hidden-treasures-in-the-w51-starbirth-crche
20:03 More space news
21:22 Most influential space moments
Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
📰 GUIDE TO SPACE EMAIL NEWSLETTER
Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.
universetoday.com/newsletter
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![NASA Just Funded This Insane Study to Resolve The Largest Known Black Hole [NIAC 2026]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U6fZ2GryNhU/mqdefault.jpg "NASA Just Funded This Insane Study to Resolve The Largest Known Black Hole [NIAC 2026]
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The 2026 NIAC Awards are out! This is OBLIVION. A project thats aims to utilize an innovative interferometry technique to resolve TON-618, the largest known black hole in the Universe. This will require insane precision, formation flying and lasers.
📜 OBLIVION: Observing Black hole LIght Via Intensity cOrrelatioN
https://www.nasa.gov/general/oblivion-observing-black-hole-light-via-intensity-correlation/
👉 All 2026 NIAC Selections
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-studies/niac-2026-selections/
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📚 How to do Business with NASA: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs, Innovators, and Contractors
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00:00 Intro
01:45 NIAC Season 2026
02:54 OBLIVION
11:06 How can it possibly work
16:18 Possible targets for observation
20:01 Alternative applications
26:23 Orbital Velocity LLC
36:28 Current obsessions
43:51 Final thoughts
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![Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes [NIAC 2026]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VqBVL2vwh04/mqdefault.jpg "Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes [NIAC 2026]
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🟣 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/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/
Saturns rings are dense. Sending one flagship probe through them makes no sense. Itll most probably be lost. But sending a swarm of small cheap probes does. Even if a lot of them wont survive, youre still getting lots of data. This is exactly what this NIAC project is proposing.
00:00 Intro
01:22 Observing Saturns rings
05:21 A swarm of satellites
21:56 Current obsessions
23:36 Final thoughts
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