HESTO will be at the 2023 Fall AGU meeting! Come meet us at our poster on Monday morning (SH11D-2642 08:30 – 12:50 PST in Poster Hall A-C – South Exhibition Level, South, MC). We will also be at the NASA Booth in the Exhibitors hall from 4 to 6 pm on Wednesday. Hope to see …
To enable missions to reach novel and otherwise difficult or impossible destinations for observing the Sun, NASA selected the Solar Cruiser Technology Demonstration Mission of Opportunity to develop a 1653 m2 solar sail system for flight demonstration in 2025. Leveraging technology developments to enable new and groundbreaking science is an important Science Mission Directorate goal. Solar …
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Magnetometers provide essential magnetic field measurements for solar-terrestrial and space physics research, for space exploration, and for monitoring space weather. Science missions have often needed a search coil magnetometer for high frequencies and a fluxgate magnetometer for the static field and low frequencies. Although one or both instruments have flown on a large percentage of …
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Miniaturizing our measurement devices has become more important over the years as our missions needed an increasing number of spacecraft to enable systems science. Launching many spacecrafts at once, affordably means smaller spacecraft and less room for our instruments. Mahmooda Sultana, a Heliophysics Instrument Development for Science (H-TIDeS) principal investigator, has taken a novel approach …
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 …