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[Q&A] Cubesats VS Big Missions, EM Protection from Space Radiation, Discovering Exomoons

20 min • 14 maj 2025

Why risk sending big space missions instead of swarms of cubesats? Can NASA protect future Mars astronauts from radiation with EM-rockets? How close are we to discovering our first exomoon? And in our Q&A+ version, which sci-fi tech is the closest to becoming a reality? Answering all that and more in this Q&A show. 🎁 [Q&A+] Same video. No YT ads. BONUS question, totally free : https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 [Overtime] Even more Q&As https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:31 [Ramon Martinez] How will NASA protect astronauts from radiation on Mars? 02:01 [First Ninja] Why launch space missions instead of swarms of cubesats? 05:07 [J Bell] Is it normal to be not interested in life beyond Earth? 08:23 [Xander Schnoebbe] How close are we to discovering exomoons? 10:05 [Jamie Doe] Can we combine a Solar Gravitational Lens and an interferometer? 10:59 [Mandahl] Visible light interferometers on Earth 13:01 [Christopher “Fiss” Brummet] Will CSA/ASC step up after NASA budget cuts? 14:44 [Web Fiji] If we go through space, will we inevitably hit something? 15:31 [Silas Miller] Is the Sun made of the same elements as the planets? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/OOOPpw11Z1U 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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