We want to thank everyone for attending and presenting at HESTO’s second annual Symposium, HELIOTECH2024! We had a total of 41 speakers at this event, with about 45 people attending in person and more than 150 attending remotely over the two days of the event. All slide decks are now available through links on the …
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. …
Quickly following the Heliophysics Technology Symposium this year is the Planetary Science Technology Symposium. The NASA Planetary Exploration Science Technology Office (PESTO) invites its awardees and members of the public to participate in the Inaugural Planetary Science Technology Symposium. Attendees will encounter the latest advances in NASA-funded technology for Planetary Science, including: remote and in-situ …
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 …
Read more about the event in our events page and don’t forget to register! The meeting will be hybrid and space may be limited for in-person attendance as well as time for presentations.
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 …
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), …
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 …
Read more “Solar Cruiser: Enabling new vistas for Heliophysics Science”
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 …
Read more “CHIMERA: A hybrid search coil and fluxgate magnetometer for small spacecraft missions”