ESTO News

Attending the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting? Take along the schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities

ESTO is pleased to announce 24 new projects awarded under the 2014 solicitation of the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program.

The 2014 ESTO Annual Report is now available: + Get the PDF

New NASA airborne campaigns selected under the 2014 Earth Venture Suborbital solicitation have significant ESTO heritage

Presentations from the the 2014 Earth Science Technology Forum are now available online

Join us in two weeks for the 2014 Earth Science Technology Forum, 10/28-10/30 in Leesburg, VA.

HAMMR, a new microwave radiometer for humidity measurements, completes its first engineering flights

ESTO is pleased to announce 11 awards for the 2014 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) program solicitation (element A.41 within the NASA 2014 ROSES omnibus research announcement).

New Climate-studying Imager Makes Successful Balloon Flight

New antenna for the Cloud Radar System flies for the first time in the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEX) airborne campaign. ESTO-funded HIWRAP instrument also takes part.

GPS sensor web project demonstrates early warning potential for a variety of natural hazards

ESTO's Michael Pasciuto featured in this Earthzine article: "A Hitchhiker's Guide to CubeSats"

ESTO's newest in-space technology validation project – the IceCube cubesat – featured in this story on NASA.gov

The ASCENDS CarbonHawk Experiment Simulator (ACES) – a new high-altitude CO2 column instrument – completes successful engineering test flights.

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne campaign is in the news again with this feature story on the HIRAD instrument. HIRAD includes an RFI detector subsystem developed in the Instrument Incubator Program.

A new high-altitude CO2 column instrument – the ASCENDS CarbonHawk Experiment Simulator (ACES) – is making its first flights onboard the NASA Falcon

First Flights for EcoSAR, a New Instrument to Study Carbon-Rich Ecosystems

Rama Nemani of the NASA Earth Exchange (and ESTO investigator) announces the NASA OpenNEX Challenges. Set to go live on July 1, these public challenges offer $60,000 in awards for innovative ways to use Earth science data.

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2014 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2014) – to be held October 28 - 30 at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA. Visit the forum website for more information.

ESTO's Charles Norton interviewed by Trajectory Magazine for this article on "The Maturation of Smallsats" (link no longer available).

In this segment from Showetime's "Years of Living Dangerously" documentary, actor Harrison Ford talks with ESTO investigator Rama Nemani and Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland about NASA Earth science.

The 2014 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST)) solicitation is now open as element A.41 of the 2014 NASA ROSES omnibus announcement. Notices of Intent are requested by May 21 and proposals are due July 11, 2014.

ESTO-funded CO2 airborne Lidar instrument, which had its first flights in late March, featured in this Hampton Roads Daily Press article (link no longer available).

Following the 3/28 La Habra earthquake, ESTO’s Quakesim project is again in the spotlight.
+ NASA feature story on Quakesim’s La Habra model
+ Fox News interview with Co-investigator John Rundle

ESTO-funded Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) instrument featured in this NASA news story (link no longer available).

COVE – the CubeSat On-Board processing Validation Experiment – successfully performs initial demonstrations in space, commences long-term technology validation

Reminder: Proposals for the 2013 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) solicitation are due 4/2/2014.

Soil Moisture Sensor Web Provides a Peek at the Drought in California

SPACENEWS features the RAVAN project – a cubesat technology demonstration for Earth radiation measurements – in this 1/20/14 article: Tiny Satellites May Answer Big Climate Change Question

ESTO is pleased to announce the awards for the 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) Solicitation (element A.40 within the NASA 2013 ROSES omnibus research announcement).

An interview with ESTO-PI Andrea Donnellan on the 20th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake: A JPL Scientist Reflects on L.A.'s Last Big Quake

RAVAN – a new cubesat technology demonstration project for Earth radiation measurements – featured in this news item from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (link no longer available).