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 granted Xplore a remote sensing license for the company’s first mission to low Earth orbit scheduled to launch later 2023.
H.R. 290 requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to review commercial remote sensing applications in 60 days rather than 120 days.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) launched the GAzelle satellite hosting NOAA’s Argos-4 and RadMon payloads.
NOAA polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites are part of the COSPAS-SARSAT global Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system.
The SARSAT Mission Control Center at NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland sends distress location information to Rescue Coordination Centers operated by the U.S. Air Force for land rescues and by the U.S. Coast Guard for water rescues.
The American Meteorological Society’s RF Allocation Committee is concerned about potential interference in the 23 to 24 gigahertz band used by the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System for passive atmospheric water vapor measurements.
The subcontract awarded to Orbit Logic expands Orbit Logic’s ongoing work on the COTS-based Enterprise Automated Scheduling Implementation planning system for NOAA.
NOAA plans to place both the hyperspectral infrared sounder and an atmospheric composition instrument on the central GeoXO satellite.
GeoXO is NOAA’s largest procurement in history with a $19,600,000,000 budget approved in December covering six satellites, operations, and support from 2022 to 2052.
NOAA’s next generation of geostationary weather satellites (GeoXO) will include a hyperspectral infrared sounder to significantly improve weather forecasting.
NOAA plans to launch the first GeoXO satellite in 2032 and the sounder-equipped satellite in 2035.
The U.S. Air Force began collecting weather imagery in 2020 with the former GOES-13 satellite, which NOAA launched in 2006 and retired in 2018.
NOAA is interested in collaborating with companies on pilot projects related to radio frequency interference, particularly in the 1675 bandwidth area.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will send the Space Weather Follow-On built by Ball Aerospace to Lagrange Point 1 in 2024.
NOAA is exploring ways to make satellite sensors more resilient to the loss of particular spectral bands.
Michael Morgan, Commerce Department assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction, leads NOAA’s effort to determine the agency’s spectrum requirements.
NOAA is considering alternative data sharing methods, such as using the internet instead of direct broadcast from meteorological satellites.
NOAA’s Space Weather Next program includes additional missions scheduled to launch in 2029, 2030, 2035, and 2037.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is assessing its dependence on specific bands of the radio frequency spectrum.
NOAA aims to mitigate the impact of interference or government sales on key areas of the agency’s radio frequency spectrum.