News – NASA HESTO

Funding Opportunity Alert! NASA Opens SBIR/STTR Phase I Solicitations

by Steve Christefunding opportunity April 23, 2026No Comments

NASA’s SBIR/STTR Program has officially released the first three Phase I appendices for their Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). If you are looking to collaborate with small businesses or leverage external innovation to advance your technology goals, this is a prime opportunity to engage. While the structure of these solicitations looks a bit …

HESTO at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

by Chris Flemingevent March 18, 2026March 23, 2026No Comments

NASA Heliophysics HESTO Program Manager, Scott Schaire, and Lead Scientist, Steven Christe, are in attendance this week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas. For almost 60 years, LPSC has been convening the lunar and planetary science community to showcase the latest science, research, and discoveries in the field. We are …

2025 Heliophysics Technology Annual Report

by Chris FlemingUncategorized February 27, 2026March 9, 2026No Comments

We are pleased to present this year’s Heliophysics Technology Annual Report, which highlights HESTO’s ongoing technology investments. HESTO facilitates NASA’s Heliosphere Technology Program (HTP) investments, nurtures project maturation, and promotes technology infusion toward furthering the greatest benefit to the science community and our nation. HESTO’s guiding vision is to inspire new realms of Heliophysics knowledge, …

New National Academies Report released on A Science Strategy for Human Exploration of Mars

by Steve Christenews January 30, 2026January 30, 2026No Comments

A new National Academies report establishes searching for evidence of existing or past life on Mars as the top science priority for the first human mission to the red planet, alongside 10 other key objectives that include critical space physics priorities such as characterizing radiation at key locations in crew habitats and sampling sites, determining …

ROSES-2025 HTiDES released!

by Steve Christefunding opportunity January 12, 2026No Comments

We are happy to announce the release of ROSES-2025 H-TIDeS. This solicitation does not require a Notice of Intent and the due date is 04/15/2026. It solicits the following programs, Instrument Technology Development (ITD) Program, Instrument Technology Development on the Space Working Environment (ITD-SWE), and Laboratory Nuclear, Atomic, and Plasma Physics (LNAPP) Program. Please read …

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Fall AGU 2025 Meeting

by Steve Christeevent December 4, 2025December 17, 2025No Comments

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 …

2024 Phase 2 SBIR Selections relevant to Heliophysics

by Steve Christesbir, selection announcement November 13, 2025November 25, 2025No Comments

The following selections by the NASA SBIR program are relevant to Heliophysics (to see all selections click here) An Advanced Surface Flux Transport Model for Space Weather (S14.01-1005) – Predictive Science Incorporated The solar magnetic field (B) plays a key role in solar and heliospheric physics and is a crucial input for Space Weather Models. …

Making High Fidelity Fluxgate Cores for Space Science and Space Weather Missions

by Steve Christenews November 13, 2025No Comments

A NASA-sponsored team at the University of Iowa (UI) is restoring and advancing the nation’s capability to make high-fidelity magnetic field measurements needed to investigate space weather that can impact our communication and power grids on Earth and our assets in space. Project Lead(s): Dr. David Miles, University of Iowa Originally published on NASA SMD

HESTO Selects Three 2025 Pathfinder Project Instruments

by Steve Christeselection announcement July 11, 2025July 21, 2025No Comments

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 …

Register now: 2025 HELIOTECH and Suborbital Symposium

by Chris Flemingnews June 25, 2025July 17, 2025No Comments

Registration is open for NASA’s joint 2025 HELIOTECH and Suborbital Symposium, hosted in Laurel, Maryland at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and online via ZoomGov. This FREE week-long event will be held September 8-12, 2025, and includes options for onsite, virtual, and hybrid attendance. Register here: https://hesto.jhuapl.edu/. The goal of the joint …