Heliophysics Technology Program

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The HEliophysics Strategic Technology Office (HESTO), hosted at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, is led by an experienced program management team tasked with facilitating NASA’s Heliophysics Technology Program (HTP) technology investments, nurturing project maturation, and promoting technology infusion toward the greatest science community benefit. HTP solicits and invests in technologies through an open and competitive solicitation process that provides grants to universities, corporations, and other institutions to explore new instrument designs and technologies, laboratory investigations, and mission concepts.

Our Vision is to Enable New Realms of Heliophysics Knowledge and Capability.

Our Mission is to Enable novel and transformative capabilities and mission concepts. Advance science by expanding the limits of what is measurable, observable, and achievable in Heliophysics. Enable science and missions that are not conceivable or achievable today.

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