In 2020, NASA established the HEliophysics Strategic Technology Office (HESTO) to support and manage its Heliosphere Technology Program (HTP). Hosted at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), HESTO is tasked with facilitating HTP investments, nurturing project maturation, and promoting technology infusion toward furthering the greatest benefit to the science community. HESTO informs and guides solicitations and nurtures advancement of technology investments to ensure the successful delivery of new Heliophysics technologies. HESTO also supports our diverse scientific and technology community through outreach efforts, including events
like our first annual Heliophysics Technology Symposium this year.
We are pleased to present this first Heliophysics Technology Annual Report, which highlights
HESTO’s ongoing Heliophysics Technology investments, including those awarded under our Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science (H-TIDeS) and Heliophysics Flight Opportunities Studies (H-FOS) program elements. I am also pleased to announce the recipients of our 2023 proposal selections, who will begin their work of discovery in 2024.
HESTO’s guiding vision is to inspire new realms of Heliophysics knowledge, implemented through our mission of enabling novel and transformative capabilities and mission concepts; advancing science by disrupting the limits of what is measurable, observable, and achievable in Heliophysics; and setting the tone for the future of the field by enabling the technology that makes science and missions not conceivable or achievable today a reality of the future.
You can find the report in our Publications or directly from Zenodo below.
- Hakimzadeh, R., Christe, S., McAllen, K., Cold, M., Harmon, C., & Fleming, C. (2024). 2023 NASA Heliophysics Technology Annual Report (v1.2). Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.10642011