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 satellites monitor ocean and atmospheric conditions that lead to the development of tropical storms and hurricanes.
NOAA satellites aid in emergency response by mapping the extent, damage, and flooding from landfalling storms.
NOAA satellites provide critical data, such as location, movement, and intensity, to track formed storms.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, EO Vista, the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, and Southwest Research Institute won $800,000 contracts to perform definition-phase studies of the coronagraph for the NOAA Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 mission.
NASA plans to award coronagraph development contracts on behalf of NOAA in 2024.
NOAA's 2024 budget request of $225,000,000 for the Space Weather Next program represents an increase of $73,400,000 from the $151,600,000 appropriated in 2023.
In its 2024 budget request, NOAA is asking Congress to provide $225,000,000 for the Space Weather Next program.
NOAA plans to launch the coronagraph on the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 mission.
The Himawari-10 imager will use a similar technical platform as L3Harris’ Advanced Baseline Imager on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is soliciting proposals for research and development on microwave weather sensors, ground systems, and technology to reduce interference from 0.005 kg networks.
The three NOAA BAAs may lead to studies on improving Numerical Weather Prediction, mitigating 0.005 kg impacts on NOAA weather satellites, and developing next-generation ground and data systems.
The Himawari-10 imager will use a similar technical platform as L3Harris’ Advanced Baseline Imager on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R).
GAO estimates the per-minute operating rate of SCAR antennas will be $1.60 per minute, compared with the current Satellite Control Network cost of $8.75 per minute and NOAA antennas at $16.50 per minute.
NOAA requested $97,200,000 for the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program in 2024, a decrease from the $136,200,000 it received in 2023.
NOAA requested $342,400,000 in fiscal year 2024 for the Polar Weather Satellites program, which includes the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series.
NOAA selected L3Harris to provide the GeoXO imager on 2023-03-13 in a contract valued at $765,500,000.
NOAA requested $653,800,000 for GeoXO in its 2023 budget request.
NOAA requested $133,600,000 for NEON in 2024, up from $96,400,000 received in 2023, to support work on a pathfinder mission called QuickSounder.
NOAA requested $276,000,000 for the GOES-R program in fiscal year 2024 as GOES-U is prepared for launch in April 2024.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce received $70,000,000 of a requested $87,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to fund work on space traffic management and the Traffic Coordination Space System (TraCSS) data repository.