ESTO News

ESTO-funded Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) project and NASA TROPICS mission featured in SpaceNews article: "NOAA sees smallsats as good gap fillers for weather system"

Attending the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting? Take along the schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities.
The NASA exhibit at AGU will also feature an exciting lineup of presentations and demos.

Congraulations to Bill Swartz and the RAVAN CubeSat team on the successful 11/11 launch (link no longer available).

The 2016 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) solicitation is now open as element A.41 of the 2016 NASA ROSES omnibus announcement. Notices of Intent are requested by December 21 and proposals are due February 16, 2017.

ESTO CubeSat projects featured in news feature and video:
NASA Small Satellites Set to Take a Fresh Look at Earth

A NASA media event (11/7) on the emerging role for small satellites will feature ESTO-funded CubeSat projects and principal investigators

ESTO is pleased to announce 17 new projects awarded under the 2016 solicitation of the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP)

ESTO is pleased to announce six new projects awarded under the 2015 solicitation of the Sustainable Land Imaging-Technology (SLI-T) program

The 2016 NASA ESTO Microwave Technologies Review and Strategy report is now available online.

Wondering what the future might hold for Earth science? Check out this new video: NASA Earth Science – A Vision for the Future

ESTO-funded Capsulation Satellite project – a low cost small satellite architecture study – featured in Goddard Space Flight Center's summer 2016 issue of Cutting Edge

Presentations from the 2016 Earth Science Technology Forum are now available online

Presentations from the 2016 Earth Science Technology Forum are now available online

The 2016 NASA ESTO Lidar Technologies Review and Strategy report is now available online.

The full schedule of sessions for the 2016 Earth Science Technology Fourm is now available at the forum website.

The 2016 Solicitation for the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) is now open as element A.42 of the 2016 NASA ROSES omnibus announcement. Notices of Intent are requested by 5/31; proposals are due 7/11.

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2016 Earth Science Technology forum (ESTF2016), to be held June 14-16 in Annapolis, MD

Congratulations to ESTO principal investigators David Diner of JPL and William Blackwell of MIT’s Lincoln Lab on their selection by NASA's Earth Venture Instrument-3 program

Four new InVEST projects featured in NASA.gov article: “New CubeSats To Test Earth Science Tech in Space”

The Lidar Community Fourm is rescheduled for 2/24/16 as a virtual, online event. Please click here to register.

The Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) is featured in this Space.com article on NASA's COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) campaign:
NASA to Capture Best-Ever Portrait of Coral Reef Health

Attending the 2016 AMS Annual Meeting? Take along the schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities