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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Terran Orbital shipped two next-generation satellites for GeoOptics to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission.
Iridium, PlanetiQ, and GeoOptics joined a coalition of 90 companies, organizations, and associations seeking to overturn the FCC’s April 2020 approval for Ligado’s terrestrial use of L-band spectrum.
GeoOptics combines RO data derived from Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS to provide commercial radio occultation data.
GeoOptics expanded into Europe by establishing GeoOptics Switzerland SA in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The first two next-generation GeoOptics spacecraft are due to launch in Summer 2022.
GeoOptics is providing commercial radio occultation data from space building on a 25-year Jet Propulsion Laboratory heritage.
GeoOptics will expand and refine its radio occultation capability with satellites currently in work and will deploy other technologies to provide a more comprehensive picture of Earth’s environment.
The first two next-generation GeoOptics spacecraft are due to launch in Summer 2022.
GeoOptics announced its expansion in Europe on 2022-02-14.
GeoOptics announced a major upgrade to its CICERO constellation in July 2021.
GeoOptics combines radio occultation data derived from Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS to offer commercial RO data.
Spire Global and GeoOptics established radio occultation constellations and began supplying data to NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. Air Force.
Climavision is a strategic partner of GeoOptics and will use CICERO-2 innovations to help customers manage significant risks related to climate and weather.
GeoOptics is improving its CICERO constellation with a major upgrade called CICERO-2.
With internal investment and $4,000,000 from NASA, GeoOptics developed a system architecture for daily gravity mapping using clusters of small satellites.
Under the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, GeoOptics is designing a radar instrument to observe ocean vector winds, topography, soil moisture, and other surface properties using patented multi-satellite radar techniques.
In 2020, NOAA selected GeoOptics to lead an end-to-end design study for NOAA’s next-generation low-orbiting weather satellite system planned to come online later this decade, building in part on radio occultation and GNSS-R technologies.
In February 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration selected GeoOptics to provide the first commercial satellite data to be included in NOAA’s operational forecasts.
CICERO-2 satellites are upgraded versions of GeoOptics' earlier CICERO satellites that collected GNSS radio occultation data used in weather forecasting.
GeoOptics announced on 2021-07-29 that it will start launching a line of satellites called CICERO-2 beginning next year.