HESTO is pleased to announce the selection of three 2025 Pathfinder projects: The first two projects will rideshare on Dr. Glyn Collinson’s (NASA GSFC) Resolute Sounding Rocket, which is a dual sounding rocket mission planned for launch from Andøya, Norway in 2027. The Resolute mission science goal is to determine how heavy ions are lofted …
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The Technology program’s new Pathfinder project has the goal of helping technologies cross the critical gap between early-stage concepts and flight demonstration. Pathfinder will do this by investing in mature and existing technology projects that have an identified flight opportunity. In the first Pathfinder, the University of Iowa will flight demonstrate next-generation magnetometer technologies. Prof. …
On June 7, 2024, NASA selected Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from 299 proposals submitted by small businesses across the country. The following projects are relevant to Heliophysics. For more information about these projects, contact the PI company directly. Project Principal Investigator Company Description An Advanced Surface Flux Transport Model for Space …
A total 25 HTIDeS proposals and 5 HFOS proposals were reviewed. We selected 6 HTIDeS and 1 HFOS project for an acceptance rate of 24% and 17% respectively. We are pleased to announce the following projects that were selected. Hybrid AC/DC Magnetometer with Attitude Determination and Control System 23-HTIDS23-0001 ITD Dr. Mark Moldwin (University of Michigan), …
The 2022 Phase 2 SBIR Selections were recently announced. The following selections are relevant to Heliophysics. Dragster: An Ensemble Assimilative Model for Satellite Drag With the decreasing cost of launching objects into space, the number of objects in Earth orbit has significantly increased. Over 27,000 objects greater than 10 cm are tracked by the Department …