ESTO News

NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space  

A new gravity gradiometer supported by ESTO will demonstrate a suite of novel space-based technologies, offering sensitivity up to ten times greater than that of traditional gravity sensors.  

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are developing an agricultural digital twin that will provide farmers with superior forecasts of agricultural productivity.

Launched March 19, ESTO's "Beyond the Algorithm" challenge hopes to improve flood water analysis using unconventional computing methods, like quantum computing, quantum machine learning, neuromorphic computing, in-memory computing, and others. Initial phase one submissions due by July 25.

ARGOS will pioneer a new technology for observing atmospheric aerosols, paving the way for improved weather models.

An ESTO-funded team at Harvard University recently completed an early concept study exploring a new technology for space-based polarimetry.

Earlier this year, two ESTO-funded projects tested their instruments over the wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena California: Hot Spot is a stratospheric-balloon-borne longwave infrared sensor payload developed by Urban Sky; and, c-FIRST is multi-spectral imager with high dynamic range developed by a team at JPL.

ESTO's own Sachi Babu, program manager for the In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) and Sustainable Land Imaging Technology (SLI-T) programs, has been named to the 2025 class of SPIE Fellows

Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are taking cues from the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to develop a compact deployable telescope.

Read up on the year's achievements: The 2024 ESTO Annual Report is available online.