The ABI is the primary payload for the United States’ GOES-R series and Japan’s Himawari-8/9 and South Korea’s GEO-KOMPSAT-2A.
The GOES-R series of satellites includes L3Harris' GOES-R Ground System and spacecraft propulsion systems.
GeoXO is designed to enhance the capabilities of the GOES-R series of satellites currently in operation.
The L3Harris-built CrIS is part of a suite of next-generation weather solutions that includes the company’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and GOES-R ground heritage systems designed to improve short- and long-range forecast accuracy and severe storm tracking.
L3Harris received more than $1,000,000,000 in weather-related contracts last year that include work on a GeoXO imager, a modernized GOES-R ground system, and imaging and sounding technology for Japan.
The NOAA, Interior, and Agriculture collaboration to use GOES-R data advances the Commission’s recommendations for expanded use of wildfire detection systems and improved interagency collaboration.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides a $20,000,000 investment to support the GOES-R wildfire detection agreement, with $10,000,000 each allocated from the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.
The GOES-R mission provided the first lightning observations from geostationary orbit.
GeoXO will continue and expand observations provided by the Lockheed Martin-built GOES-R Series geostationary satellites to include new observations of oceans and air pollution.
Lockheed Martin built the current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES-R) series.
GOES-U is the fourth and final satellite in the GOES-R series and is scheduled to launch 2024-06-25 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
GeoXO is a constellation of three satellites intended to expand Earth observations made by NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) series.
The GOES-R geostationary program received $276,000,000 in the fiscal year 2024 spending bill, equal to its full request.
Lockheed Martin produced two primary instruments aboard GOES-R series satellites: the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the Solar Ultraviolet Imager.
NOAA’s projected $19,600,000,000 for the six-satellite GeoXO program is nearly double what NOAA spent on the GOES-R program.
The Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services contract will provide services that extend the functions of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite‑R (GOES‑R) ground system.
The Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services award is a follow‑on to L3Harris’ contracts for building and sustaining the GOES‑R core ground and antenna systems.
The GGSS contract is a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide sustainment services for the ground system that supports NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R Series (GOES-R).
NASA builds and launches GOES-R Series satellites for NOAA.
The GOES-R ground system receives data from GOES-R Series spacecraft and generates real-time data products that support NOAA’s National Weather Service and the nation’s weather enterprise.