HESTO is charged with actively managing the NASA Heliophysics Division’s technology portfolio and supporting Principal Investigators (PIs) in maturating and infusing their funded technologies into future missions. The HESTO team strives to catalyze the collaboration between PIs to spark novel and transformative technology ideas and mission concepts.
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- HELIOTECH/Orbital Flight: Forging Partnerships That Ignite Science
Thank you for attending the fourth annual HELIOTECH symposium in partnership with NASA Orbital Flight and hosted at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. We hope this symposium week has forged new partnerships toward building the foundation for …Read more “HELIOTECH/Orbital Flight: Forging Partnerships That Ignite Science”
- NASA TechLeap Prize: Orbital Clarity Challenge
HESTO is proud to announce that NASA has launched the Orbital Clarity Challenge, the sixth opportunity in the NASA TechLeap Prize series. A collaborative effort between NASA’s Heliophysics Division, Flight Opportunities program, and Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, this … - NASA, DOE, and Princeton: Combining Forces to Safeguard the US Power Grid and More
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments (FLARE) is advancing its capabilities through the NASA Heliophysics Technology (HESTO) Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science (H-TIDeS) program. The FLARE facility is adding soft X-ray tomography, electron …Read more “NASA, DOE, and Princeton: Combining Forces to Safeguard the US Power Grid and More”
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HELIOTECH2027
We are pleased to announce that next year’s Symposium, to be held September 20-24, 2027, will be in partnership with NASA’s Planetary Exploration Science Technology Office (PESTO) and again hosted at the Applied Physics Laboratory in the DC Metro area.