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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PlanetiQ has started delivering radio occultation data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a previously awarded contract.
Data from NOAA’s geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites are merged to create detailed and comprehensive flood zone maps.
PlanetiQ plans to launch more spacecraft in the next 18 months to expand global coverage and resolution to further support NOAA and international partners for weather forecasting and climate research.
The $8,000,000 task order was the first task order under a NOAA indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract awarded in March to PlanetiQ and Spire Global.
NOAA awarded contracts last year to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of commercial observations.
PlanetiQ won an $8,000,000 task order to deliver daily weather data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over six months.
NOAA’s geostationary satellite data of fine particulate pollution are being used in nowcasting mode to provide warnings to the public.
NOAA satellites provided data used by air quality forecasters when wildfires near Quebec, Canada, sent smoke plumes over the eastern United States in early June 2023.
NOAA used measurements of aerosol optical depth from VIIRS on NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP to estimate numbers of people exposed to PM2.5 by Air Quality Index level for 2023-06-03–10, 2023.
NOAA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP satellites estimated that more than 17 million people in major cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. were breathing Very Unhealthy air during the early-June 2023 event.
Aerosol Watch from NOAA’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research provides satellite imagery that forecasters use to assess local air quality.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act of 2023 would establish NOAA as an independent agency rather than as part of the Commerce Department.
NOAA was established by executive order in 1970 and has never been formally authorized by Congress.
NOAA’s projected $19,600,000,000 for the six-satellite GeoXO program is nearly double what NOAA spent on the GOES-R program.
NOAA selected L3Harris in March to provide the imager instrument for GeoXO under a $765,500,000 contract.
The GeoXO program received $285,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 funding, below the $653,800,000 NOAA requested for that year.
NOAA projects spending $19,600,000,000 over the life of the six-satellite GeoXO program, extending to the middle of the century.
Rick Spinrad, NOAA administrator, testified at a House Science Committee hearing on 2023-05-11 about NOAA’s budget proposal and emphasized that funding for GeoXO and other future satellite programs will ensure critical data continuity and add new capabilities.
NOAA requested $417,400,000 for the GeoXO program in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration signed Woolpert to a $7,000,000 contract to perform hydrographic surveying and collect bathymetric data in and around Nome, Alaska.