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 provided GOES-18 ABI data to GOES West data users from 2022-08-01 to 2022-09-08, and from 2022-10-13 to 2022-11-16, through a data interleave with GOES-17 products.
The GOES-R Series Program is a collaborative effort between NOAA and NASA in which NASA builds and launches the satellites and NOAA operates them and distributes their data worldwide.
NOAA requested $350,200,000 for the Polar Weather Satellite program and the omnibus provided $180,500,000 for that program.
Appropriators directed NOAA to provide a report on user needs and requirements for the next-generation geostationary satellites and to provide lifecycle cost estimates for those satellites.
The fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill included $70,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA requested $653,800,000 for the Geostationary Extended Operations program to complete Phase A formulation studies for an imager and a sounder and to start Phase A work on remaining instruments and the spacecraft.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce launched a pilot project to provide spaceflight safety mission assurance to select spacecraft in medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce partnered with the Department of Defense to award seven contracts for space situational awareness data analysis.
In September 2022, NOAA awarded five commercial data contracts for geostationary orbit space object tracking data that will be used to support the MEO/GEO pilot project.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is working closely with the Department of Defense on the MEO/GEO pilot project and the overall migration of commercial and civil space situational awareness responsibilities to the Commerce Department.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce partnered with the Department of Defense to award seven contracts to U.S. commercial space firms for Space Situational Awareness data analysis.
In September 2022, NOAA awarded five commercial data contracts for geostationary space object tracking data to support the MEO/GEO pilot project.
NV5 Global was awarded a $9 million, two-year contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geodetic Survey to provide topobathymetric lidar, 4-band imagery, and mapping of the Maine shoreline.
NOAA operates the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 weather satellite.
Ball Aerospace built the JPSS-1 satellite, now known as NOAA-20, which launched in 2017.
NOAA’s JPSS-2 satellite was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
NASA developed the ground system for JPSS, and NOAA operates and maintains the ground system.
NASA launched the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for NOAA at 1:49 a.m. PST on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
JPSS-2 will be renamed NOAA-21 when it reaches its final orbit.
NASA develops and builds the JPSS instruments and spacecraft and provides launch services on behalf of NOAA.