The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a U.S. government agency focused on science-based services and environmental intelligence. Within the space industry, NOAA plays a vital role in monitoring and forecasting space weather through its Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). NOAA operates a network of satellites, including the GOES and DSCOVR, to track solar activity and its potential impacts on Earth, providing alerts and warnings to various sectors like satellite operations, power grids, and communication systems. NOAA collaborates with NASA and commercial partners on space weather programs like the Space Weather Next program, ensuring continuous space-based observations.
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NOAA’s OSC issued a Request for Information in October 2023 for the provision of a presentation layer that will provide the user interface to display and access SSA data and services for TraCSS.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) is developing TraCSS as a modern, cloud-based IT system that will provide space situational awareness (SSA) and space traffic coordination (STC) services to private and civil space operators.
NOAA’s OSC awarded a prior task order to Amazon Web Services in August 2023 to establish the secure cloud computing infrastructure to host TraCSS.
Per Space Policy Directive-3, NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is taking over responsibility from the Department of Defense for the provision of basic SSA data and STC services to commercial and civil space operators.
NOAA and SpaceX set the launch date for GOES-U as 2024-06-25 to place the satellite into geostationary orbit.
Teledyne Geospatial provides 3D topo-bathymetric lidar solutions and supported Tetra Tech on the NOAA project.
NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program received $97,200,000 in the fiscal year 2024 spending bill for its SWFO-L1 mission.
The fiscal year 2024 spending bill provides $65,000,000 for NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce.
NOAA sought an increase for NEON to support work on a pathfinder mission called QuickSounder.
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.
The Commercial Data Purchase program is an initiative designed to improve NOAA forecasts and bolster the commercial market for space-based weather data.
NOAA delivery orders are awarded based on the number of profiles that can be procured with the funding received and the need for data within NOAA.
NOAA obtains data from dozens of satellites owned and operated by the U.S. government, international partners, companies, and nonprofits.
Congress allocated $3,000,000 to NOAA in 2016 to establish the Commercial Weather Data Pilot to evaluate the utility of commercial observations.
NOAA concluded four years after 2016 that the commercial sector could produce data of high enough quality to meet the needs of operational weather forecasts and planned to begin buying commercial data for operational use.
True Anomaly plans to seek NOAA license modifications to cover larger constellations, different missions or orbits such as GEO, and new design variants.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce plans to announce additional partnering opportunities in the near future.
The CRADA’s research efforts will assist NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce in developing capabilities to deconflict and manage the increasingly crowded orbital environment.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now processes commercial remote sensing licenses in weeks instead of months.
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working with the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the European Space Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations to establish a robust space weather program.