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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Communications, remote sensing, and launch and reentry activities are overseen by the FCC, NOAA, and the FAA, respectively.
NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Air Force signed a memorandum of agreement at the White House on 2023-12-07 to improve cooperation on space weather research and operations.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy released a document in March 2022 establishing an R2O2R framework and calling for NASA, NOAA, NSF, and the U.S. Air Force to develop a new agreement to collaborate on transitioning research into space weather operations and providing operational requirements to researchers.
The memorandum of agreement commits NASA, NOAA, NSF, and the U.S. Air Force to coordinate activities that transition space weather research into operational forecasts and provide user feedback from operational applications into research (research-to-operations-to-research, or R2O2R).
NOAA is planning two successors to SWFO, designated L-1 A and L-1 B, with planned launches in 2029 and 2032.
The Space Weather Advisory Group issued a report earlier 2023 that called on NOAA to improve its R2O2R activities and noted there has been substantial progress but that NOAA could do more to create operations-ready research data and improve model maturity.
NASA is the lead implementing agency of the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center and partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Parsons is delivering data from NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 to NESDIS to support NOAA’s numerical weather prediction and climate models and environmental monitoring.
Operation of all three POES satellites transitioned from the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland to Parsons’ Operations Facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado on 2023-11-28 after approximately one year of transition activities.
NOAA pursued a Ground System as a Service (GSaaS) capability to continue operating NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 well into the future.
NOAA awarded a contract to Parsons Corporation in September 2022 to implement POES Extended Life.
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 in February 2025 and will include NOAA’s Space Weather Follow-On spacecraft and NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory as payloads.
The NOAA remote sensing license allows Satellogic to open ground stations in the United States to downlink data from its Aleph-1 constellation.
The NOAA license expands Satellogic’s ground station network to include US-based ground stations.
Satellogic is expanding its ground station network to include U.S.-based ground stations as part of the NOAA license conditions.
Satellogic initiated the license application for its Aleph-1 Constellation to establish an end-to-end U.S. pixel path and expand support for customers with NOAA requirements.
Satellogic initiated a license application for its Aleph-1 Constellation to establish an end-to-end U.S. pixel path and expand support for customers with NOAA requirements.
DoD planners and military weather analysts plan to use data from NOAA, EUMETSAT, the Japan Meteorological Agency, and other partners to supplement U.S. military-owned satellite capacity.
ICEYE US, headquartered in Irvine, California, builds and operates NOAA-licensed satellites in support of U.S. Government and commercial customers.
SRS NOAA US Storm Events includes 1.8 million recorded events that are curated and standardized at the US County and Census-Tract Levels dating back to 1950 with USD CPI-adjusted damages.