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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In September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation data from current or planned constellations.
The launch included Cicero-10, a small satellite built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for the weather satellite constellation company GeoOptics.
The It’s Business Time mission manifest includes a satellite built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for weather satellite constellation company GeoOptics.
Three GeoOptics satellites that launched on a Soyuz in July 2017 are believed to be among several satellites on that mission that failed after reaching orbit.
NOAA awarded contracts valued at a little more than $1,000,000 in September 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire in round one of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
GeoOptics was unable to provide any data under its round-one contract because its first satellites had not launched before the contract data-provision window closed in April 2017.
NOAA issued contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation weather data from satellites currently in orbit or planned for launch in the coming months.
GeoOptics received a $3,440,000 contract in round two of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 in contracts on 2018-09-17 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
GeoOptics has at least two Cicero satellites in orbit that were launched as secondary payloads on Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle missions in June 2017 and January 2018.
One payload is a satellite built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for GeoOptics.
The Lemur-2 and Tyvak-for-GeoOptics satellites were originally announced as payloads for the "It's Business Time" mission.
The Electron mission also carries two Lemur-2 satellites from Spire and one satellite built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for GeoOptics.