GeoOptics is a commercial Earth observation company that provides environmental data to government, commercial, and research sectors. They operate the CICERO constellation of LEO satellites, which use radio occultation techniques to collect data about Earth's atmosphere, surface, and subsurface. This data is used for weather forecasting, climate research, and monitoring space weather. GeoOptics partners with organizations like NASA, NOAA, and Terran Orbital, and their activities are relevant to weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and Earth science.
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NOAA awarded radio occultation data contracts to GeoOptics in February 2021, to Spire in August 2021, to Spire again in February 2022, and to PlanetIQ in April 2023.
NOAA awarded contracts last year to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of commercial observations.
GeoOptics Inc. won a NASA contract worth a maximum of $7,000,000 over five years to provide researchers with data acquired by the company’s small satellite constellation.
GeoOptics has supplied radio occultation data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for weather forecasts since 2020.
Under the agreement, GeoOptics shall deliver a comprehensive catalog of its commercial Earth Observation data.
The NASA contract requires GeoOptics to deliver a comprehensive catalog of its data products including data sets, associated metadata and ancillary information, data cadence, data latency, area coverage, and data usage policy.
NASA selected GeoOptics Inc. of Pasadena, California to provide commercial small constellation satellite data products.
GeoOptics will process radio occultation data for NASA to a higher degree of accuracy than the data the company provides to NOAA for weather forecasting.
NASA awarded the GeoOptics contract on 2022-11-14.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire Global to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of commercial observations.
Under the NOAA contracts, GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire will provide radio occultation datasets that reveal weather conditions in Earth’s ionosphere.
Since 2020, NOAA has been purchasing radio occultation data from GeoOptics and Spire to improve terrestrial weather forecasts.
NOAA will evaluate data supplied by GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire over approximately 12 months.
Terran Orbital flew satellites on Transporter-5 for customers including Fleet, GeoOptics, and NASA.
GeoOptics CICERO-2 Vehicles 1 and 2 constitute the first phase of the CICERO-2 next-generation satellite constellation intended to form a unified Earth observatory for climate change monitoring.
Terran Orbital Corporation shipped two next-generation satellites from GeoOptics to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission.
GeoOptics’s first-generation satellites were designed and developed by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a Terran Orbital Corporation.
GeoOptics’s CICERO-2 constellation is designed to form a unified Earth observatory to monitor and prepare for the impacts of climate change.
The two spacecraft shipped by Terran Orbital are the first phase of GeoOptics’s CICERO-2 constellation.
GeoOptics’s first-generation satellites were designed and developed by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a Terran Orbital Corporation.