Fall AGU 2025 Meeting

Current and former HESTO PIs are making presentations at the Fall AGU meeting this year in New Orleans. Our Lead Scientist, Steven Christe, will also be attending AGU — look for him and our updated flyer (especially Thursday 12/18 at 3:12-3:23 pm in 286-287 (NOLA CC)).

Day	Time	Place	Presentation Title	PI
Monday 12/15	10:30 AM – 11 AM	283-285 (NOLA CC)	Prototyping and Design Advances for Debris and meteoroid ENvironment Sensor (DENTS): an Instrument for In-Situ Small Debris Detection and Characterization of the Near-Spacecraft Environment Following Hypervelocity Impacts Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) Test Results and Pre-Launch Update	David Malaspina Andy Nicholas
	2:15 PM – 5:45 PM	Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)	Multiscale Signatures of the Feedback-Unstable Ionosphere Alfvén Resonator: Observations from the ACES-II Sounding Rockets and a First Look from TRACERS	David Miles
			Lunar Orbiting Observatory for Neutron Spectrometry (LOONS)	Georgia de Nolfo
			SONTRAC Neutron Path Reconstruction, Physics-Informed Machine Learning	Georgia de Nolfo
Tuesday 12/16	8:30 AM – 12 PM	Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)	Initial Results of TRACERS MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability Technology Demonstration (MAGIC) Technology Demonstration	David Miles
			The TRACERS Small Explorers Mission
	3:05 PM – 3:15 PM 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM	280-282 (NOLA CC)	SM23B-06Magnetic Characterization and Interference Mitigation for the TRACERS Mission The Space Weather Observations at Lagrange 1 (SOL), Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) – TRL-6 Demo-prototype design and Calibration Results	David Miles Chris Mouikis
	4:25 PM – 4:35 PM		A Miniature Solar WInd Sensor (MSWIS) for future low-cost, constellation, and deep-space missions	Keiichi Ogasawara
	5:05 PM – 5:15 PM		A high geometric factor spectrometer for fast plasma measurements on future missions	Dhiren Kataria
	5:25 PM -5:35 PM		Evolving plasma sensors for future measurements of Earth’s magnetospheric cold plasma	Justin Lee
Wednesday 12/17	8:30 AM – 12 PM	Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)	Fluxgate Magnetometers New Core Material Experimentation and Performance	David Miles
			ICON/MIGHTI as a Probe of O-Atom Green Line Emission and Density	Kostas Kalogerakis
			New Model of the CO215 µm Cooling of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere	Kostas Kalogerakis
			Developing HERT: Instrument Bench Testing and Beam Testing via Beta Ray Spectrometer with a Sr90/Y90 Radiation Source	Hong Zhao
			Pushing CubeSat Limits to Investigate High-Energy Electron Acceleration in Earth’s radiation belts	Hong Zhao
	2:15 PM – 5:45 PM	Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)	The Upcoming ICI-5bis Sounding Rocket for Magnetometer Investigations into Alfvén Waves and Electron Precipitation	David Miles
Thursday 12/18	2:15 PM – 2:28 PM	286-287 (NOLA CC)	Laboratory Spectroscopy of Fe Ions: Supporting Next Generation Solar Missions	Amy Gall
	2:28 PM – 2:39 PM		Development of the Suprathermal Particle and Relativistic Electron Magnetic Spectrometer (SuPREMeS)	Drew Turner
	3:12-3:23		An Overview of the Measuring Directivity to Determine Electron Anisotropy (MeDDEA) instrument on the PADRE CubeSat Observatory	Steven Christe
	2:15 PM – 5:45 pm	Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)	Teaching Old Rockets New Tricks: A Reanalysis of Nightglow Emission Observations The PLAsmaspheric radio TOmography (PLATO) Mission Concept	Kostas Kalogerakis Scott Thaller
Friday 12/19	8:30 AM – 12 PM	Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)	Progress on MEGA-H: An Ultra-Wide-Field Camera for Heliophysics Applications	Josh Eskin