ESTO News

11/28/2022

Gathering Light: Miniaturized Lantern Shows Promise for Atmospheric Measurements

A new fiber optic instrument component may help researchers develop smaller telescopes, improved lidar instruments, and other advanced technologies for observing dynamic Earth systems.

11/03/2022

New NASA FireSense Technology program will help first responders combat wildfires

NASA’s new FireSense Technology program will equip first responders with new tools for managing and predicting wildfires.

10/12/2022

NASA Earth Science Racks up Frequent-Flier Miles in New Zealand Skies

ESTO PI Chris Ruf of the University of Michigan is testing next-generation GNSS bistatic radar receivers on Air New Zealand airplanes as part of the CYGNSS mission.

10/10/2022

Mighty miniature microwave limb sounder sets sights on atmospheric ozone

A new NASA instrument will help researchers study atmospheric chemistry in Earth’s stratosphere, helping future scientists observe fundamental features of Earth's atmospheric chemistry.

08/22/2022

New AI algorithms streamline data processing for space-based instruments

Engineers and researchers from JPL and the companies Qualcomm and Ubotica are developing a set of AI algorithms that could help future space missions process raw data more efficiently.

08/08/2022

NASA SoOpSAR satellite could give farmers fresh forecasts of snowmelt levels

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

07/18/2022

NASA compact spectral irradiance monitor paves the way for improved climate models

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.

07/11/2022

Novel NASA Instrument Sets Sights on Earth-bound Solar Radiation

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.  

06/13/2022

2022 FireSense Technology Solicitation Now Open

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

06/03/2022

NASA Selects Minority-Serving Institution Proposals to Receive Support

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.

05/16/2022

HARP instrument deorbits after pioneering novel atmospheric observation technologies

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.

05/04/2022

Project Selections for AIST-21

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

04/28/2022

NASA software leverages hyperspectral data to better understand climate change

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.

04/25/2022

2022 Solicitation for the Advanced Component Technology (ACT) Program is Now Open

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.

04/22/2022

Project Selections for DSI-21

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

04/18/2022

Software prototype helps bring NASA satellite data to first responders more quickly

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.

04/06/2022

New NASA software could help predict water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay

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.

03/22/2022

Minority Serving Institutions Space Accelerator

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. 

02/19/2022

NACHOS CubeSat launches onboard the NG-17 Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station

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

01/31/2022

NASA-supported Prototype Turns Earth Data into 3D Video Dashboard

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.

01/10/2022

VIPR radar instrument takes to the skies to study in-cloud water vapor

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.

01/01/2022

2021 ESTO Annual Report

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