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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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded its first contracts on 2020-11-20 to GeoOptics and Spire Global to purchase radio occultation data.
GeoOptics and Spire Global have developed, manufactured, and operated satellites to gather atmospheric temperature, pressure, and water vapor observations for input into operational weather forecasts.
GeoOptics and Spire Global developed, manufactured, and operate satellites to gather atmospheric temperature, pressure, and water vapor observations for operational weather forecasts.
NOAA awarded initial task orders to GeoOptics and Spire Global on 2020-11-20 and did not disclose the value of those task orders.
NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery–indefinite quantity contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a total ceiling of $23,000,000.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts on 2020-11-20 to purchase radio occultation data from GeoOptics and Spire Global.
Only GeoOptics and Spire submitted radio occultation data for CWDP Round 2 because PlanetIQ had not launched its first satellite.
In CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.
Spire CEO Peter Platzer considers the CWDP Round 2 report to be very good news for NOAA’s efforts to improve weather forecasts, for people dealing with weather uncertainty, for the commercial weather data industry broadly, and for Spire and GeoOptics specifically.
GeoOptics is based in Pasadena, California and delivers radio occultation data to government and commercial customers.
GeoOptics developed its radio occultation sensors with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tyvak.
GeoOptics developed a new data processing system to improve the accuracy of weather data from its CICERO radio occultation satellite constellation.
GeoOptics delivers radio occultation data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot.
GeoOptics began gathering radio occultation data with its first operational Cicero satellite launched in January 2018.
NOAA awarded contracts in 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire as part of its second Commercial Weather Data Pilot.
GeoOptics launched two Cicero satellites in late 2018 and expanded and updated its ground station network in 2019 to speed delivery of data to customers.
NOAA awarded contracts with a combined value of more than $8,000,000 in 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire Global under the Commercial Weather Data Pilot to provide GNSS radio occultation data.
NOAA is in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program with contracts awarded in September 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire.
The first round of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot, using contracts awarded in 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire, concluded that the data fell short of expectations.
GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire are providing GPS radio occultation data that measure the refraction of GPS signals to produce temperature and pressure profiles for weather forecasting models.