ESTO News

The 2024 solicitation of the Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program is now open as element A.52 of the ROSES-2024 omnibus announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are requested by February 18, 2025, and proposals are due April 10, 2025.

Final round of FireSense Technology 2023 selections brings total of awarded projects to seven

ESTO's own Jacqueline Le Moigne, program manager for the Advanced Modeling Technology program and lead of the Intelligent Systems Technology group, named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to satellite image registration and intelligent space systems design"

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

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

Attending the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting? Take along this schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities.

A science antenna developed with support from ESTO is now in low-Earth orbit aboard MuSat2, a commercial remote-sensing satellite flown by the aerospace company Muon Space

Under ESTO's Intelligent Systems Technology area, AMT will expand modeling capabilities and compliment existing AIST program thrusts.

SNOWWI is a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar that could one day be the cornerstone of future missions dedicated to measuring snow mass on a global scale.

11 Projects Awarded Under the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP)

The 2024 solicitation of the Decadal Survey Incubation (DSI) program is now open as element A.55 of the ROSES-2024 omnibus announcement. Notices of Intent to propose are requested by October 17, 2024, and proposals are due December 17, 2024. A pre-proposal conference will be held September 25, 2024.

An AIST-funded project uses advances in onboard processing to create detailed maps of river streamflow from a drone-based instrument package with minimal latency.

ESTO and NASA's Ames Research Center host Quantum Technical Interchange Meeting, bringing together a diverse group of researchers interested in quantum sensing.

"Paul Grogan receives NASA grant to connect satellites, sensors and sea vehicles"

Two new awards under the 2023 FireSense Technology solicitation

Wildfire Digital Twin will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast potential burn paths in real time, merging data from in situ, airborne, and spaceborne sensors.

A news release published by the University of Florida about GRATTIS, a new sensor for measuring nanometer-scale gravitational changes.

Three companies – Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Phoebus Optoelectronics , and BAE Systems, Inc. – are working together to develop a new ultra-compact, infrared instrument for atmospheric sounding of temperature and water vapor.

New Awards Under the 2023 In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) Solicitation

Two NASA pathfinding missions were recently deployed into low-Earth orbit, where they are demonstrating novel technologies for observing atmospheric gases, measuring freshwater, and even detecting signs of potential volcanic eruptions.

It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instruments that allow PACE to study the ocean and atmosphere with unprecedented clarity.

3D-CHESS will allow sensors to coordinate with each other more effectively and operate with greater autonomy, uniting disparate instruments within a single, dynamic sensor web.

A new Observational System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) will help researchers design science missions dedicated to monitoring terrestrial freshwater storage.

  Two ESTO InVEST demonstration projects – the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI) and the Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation (SNOOPI) – were launched on March 21 onboard NASA's SpaceX 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station, where they will await deployment in coming months.

A new collection of open-source software will help researchers merge stereo images with lidar data, making it easier to observe rapidly changing topographical features such as melting ice sheets and glaciers.

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2024 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2024), June 11-12 in Crystal City, VA

Attending the 2024 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Jan 28 - Feb 1, Baltimore MD)? Take along this schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities.

The Metalens Origami Deployable Lidar Telescope (MODeL-T), an ESTO ACT-22 project at GSFC, was featured in a 7-minute Tech for Good CNN segment in early December. The MODeL-T project is developing a ~1.6 m collection aperture to enable smaller, lighter and less expensive implementation of space-based lidar while improving measurement performance. Watch the video here.