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Terrestrial Resources
and Hazard Prediction

Our mission is to understand and protect the nation’s resources from Earth’s subsurface through the magnetosphere

Artist's concept of a near-Earth object.

TRaHP’s Objectives

Objective #1: Monitor and predict atmospheric changes, terrestrial resource usage and availability, and extreme events 

Objective #2: Observe and predict space weather that impacts Earth or Earth orbiting assets (from magnetosphere to ITM to VLEO) 

Objective #3: Detect and predict orbital debris, and their reentry, impacting Earth and orbiting assets

Objective #4: Detect and track potentially hazardous objects in space that could pose a threat to humans

Areas of interest

Objective #1 Area of Interest:
•Lidar, passive microwave, or other relevant & innovative remote sensing systems
•Advanced computational and modeling techniques
•Integrated photonics
•Metamaterials
•Calibration, validation, verification methods and technologies

<strong>Objective #1 Area of Interest:<br></strong>•Lidar, passive microwave, or other relevant & innovative remote sensing systems<br>•Advanced computational and modeling techniques<br>•Integrated photonics<br>•Metamaterials<br>•Calibration, validation, verification methods and technologies

Objective #2 Area of Interest:
•Charged and neutral particle instruments
•Electric and magnetic field instruments
•Reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) instruments
•Space weather modeling

<strong>Objective #2 Area of Interest:<br></strong>•Charged and neutral particle instruments<br>•Electric and magnetic field instruments<br>•Reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) instruments<br>•Space weather modeling

Objective#3 Area of Interest:
•New techniques to identify orbital debris (OD) from .1 to 10 cm
•Observations to characterize the environment in which OD is moving and thus more accurate neutral density and neutral wind models
•Instruments that detect and characterize OD in Low Earth Orbit

<strong>Objective#3 Area of Interest:<br></strong>•New techniques to identify orbital debris (OD) from .1 to 10 cm<br>•Observations to characterize the environment in which OD is moving and thus more accurate neutral density and neutral wind models<br>•Instruments that detect and characterize OD in Low Earth Orbit

Technology Leadership for Immediate Needs

Operational Agencies and profit-driven companies want to fly technology that is proven to work… today. Goddard drives innovation needed for tomorrow, ensuring our Nation’s competitive edge.

Technology Engine

The need to improve predictive accuracy drives us to develop advanced measurement technologies and innovative observing systems. This engine fuels the Nation.
We Validate and Transfer Technology

We are experienced in maturing and demonstrating groundbreaking technology to ensure the Nation’s competitive edge.
Service to the Nation

The growing industry depends on NASA’s data to protect their own missions from Space Weather, and as augmentation and/or a validation source for their own measurements of a variety of Earth phenomena.