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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NASA oversees GeoXO satellite development while NOAA provides the funding, program management, and operations for GeoXO.
NOAA may need to write service-level agreements for future systems instead of traditional requirements documentation.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to incorporate innovative commercial technologies into its satellite ground systems.
NOAA plans to award contracts for GeoXO imagers and begin soliciting proposals for GeoXO sounders later 2023-01.
NOAA currently develops a unique ground system for each satellite mission.
NOAA plans to look to the private sector for breakthrough and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing.
NOAA's National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) stated that maintaining its current ground system approach will make it difficult to meet future mission requirements over the next 20 to 30 years.
NOAA is preparing to launch the final satellite in the GOES-R series in 2024.
NOAA intends to transition to an enterprise ground architecture to support its next generation of satellite observing systems.
NOAA launched the third of three GOES-R series satellites in March 2022.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is embarking on the $19,600,000,000 Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program, NOAA’s largest procurement ever.
Ball Aerospace’s Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instruments are operating on the Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites launched in 2011 and 2017, respectively.
NOAA declared the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-18 fully operational as GOES West.
COSMIC-2 is a joint program of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Taiwan’s National Space Organization, NOAA, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that launched in 2019.
Space industry officials welcomed NOAA's new approach of leveraging private industry investments to enhance ground enterprise capabilities.
NOAA faces challenges in transitioning to more reliance on the commercial sector while maintaining data integrity, security, and quality.
NOAA would exceed available funding if it expands its satellite constellation through 2042 without changing its ground architecture strategy.
GOES-18 was launched in March and replaced GOES-17 as one of NOAA’s two primary geostationary satellites.
NASA, NOAA, and industry representatives implemented mitigation steps for GOES-17’s Advanced Baseline Imager cooling-system deficiency that shortened GOES-17’s anticipated lifespan.
NOAA shared imagery from the GOES-18 Advanced Baseline Imager with GOES West data customers from 2022-08-01 to 2022-09-08 and from 2022-10-13 to 2022-11-16.