ESTO News

A new NASA instrument technology could help researchers monitor mountainous snowpacks on a global scale.

Researchers from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics teamed up with NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office to develop a new instrument for exploring the spectral composition of solar energy more efficiently.

A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the Sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet’s severe weather, climate change and other global forces.  

The inaugural Technology Development for Support of Wildfire Science and Disaster Mitigation (FireTech) solicitation has been released as element A.53 of the 2022 Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES 2022) omnibus solicitation.

Awardees in the first MSI Space Accelerator, a first-of-its-kind NASA innovation program sponsored by ESTO, have been announced after a competitive application process.

NASA’s Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) instrument deorbited after 777 days in space, successfully ending a two-year mission that pioneered new technologies for observing cloud and aerosol properties from space.

28 Projects Awarded Under the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program

A team of researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Wisconsin are teaming up to build an open-source software platform that will help professional and citizen scientists study our changing world more easily.

The 2022 solicitation for the Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program is now open as element A.46 of the ROSES-22 omnibus announcement. A preproposal bidder's conference will be held Tuesday, May 17 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time, Phone: 1-844-467-6272, Passcode: 831772. Notices of Intent are requested by June 10 and proposals are due by July 26, 2022.

35 Science and Technology Projects Awarded Under the Decadal Survey Incubation (DSI) Program

With support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), researchers developed a prototype software program that can deliver complete Earth data packages in under 25 minutes.

NASA, NOAA, and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) are teaming up to create a software program to help identify impaired water quality more easily.

Learn more about the MSI Space Accelerator, a first-of-its-kind NASA innovation program sponsored by ESTO that will bring together diverse scholars to advance the agency’s goals for improving its future science missions. 

High-flying NASA ‘NACHOS’ Instrument May Help Predict Volcanic Eruptions

A team of researchers developed a prototype 3D video dashboard for data from field campaigns that will make information easier to process and more readily available to researchers throughout the Earth science community.

A team of researchers are working on the Vapor In-cloud Profiling Radar (VIPR), a new instrument that would allow scientists to profile water vapor within the cloudy atmosphere.

Read up on the year's achievements: The 2021 ESTO Annual Report is available online.