ROSES 2022: Advanced Component Technology
Funding Agency:
- NASA
The Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program seeks proposals for technology development leading to new component-level as well as subsystem-level spaceborne and/or airborne measurement techniques in support of the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division. The ACT program is managed by NASA's Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). ESTO supports the development of a range of advanced observation and information systems technologies to meet the demand of future Earth science measurements and activities addressing the full scientific measurement process. This includes, but is not limited to, instruments needed to make specific observations, data systems, and information products that render observations useful to the scientific community in a timely manner. Emerging technologies, novel instrument architectures, and innovative platforms show great promise for measuring Earth phenomena that have not been previously or adequately characterized by conventional satellite instruments alone. Phenomena that are transient, transitional, and/or dynamic in nature have been difficult to study using traditional low Earth orbit (LEO) orbiting instruments due to insufficient temporal and/or spatial sampling of such events. Inexpensive, high quality intelligent sensors and platforms at higher orbits, or in a constellation and/or in a coordinated fashion, coupled with new pointing, real-time data processing, and command capabilities, can now give scientists the ability to selectively conduct observations focused on dynamic events of interest. Emerging new instrument technologies coupled with new platform capabilities and rapidly evolving information technologies could become the foundational infrastructure of new observing systems that can dynamically react to rapidly changing environmental conditions.
Various
$4,800,000
July 26, 2022
Amber E. Emory Science Mission Directorate Earth Science Technology Office National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington, DC 20546 Telephone: 301-312-2448 Email: amber.emory@nasa.gov