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’s Office for Coastal Management has produced consistent, accurate landcover data at a resolution of 10 to 30 m for decades.
Ecopia AI was awarded $10,000,000 in contracts, with an additional $6,000,000 in options, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to create high-precision mapping data.
Ecopia AI will provide a variety of unique land cover maps to support NOAA’s partner agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.
Maxar manufactured five additional NOAA weather monitoring satellites: GOES 8, GOES 9, GOES 10, GOES 11, and GOES 12.
The Maxar 1300-class platform provides precision, stability, reliability, and assured operations intended to meet NOAA requirements for the GeoXO mission.
Maxar Technologies received a Phase A study contract from NASA for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft mission.
The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on NOAA’s GOES-R series detects about 1 million lightning flashes every day across the western hemisphere.
NOAA awarded a $15,000,000 contract for cloud services to SAIC and Carahsoft on 2022-08-03.
NASA selected Lockheed Martin to further refine concepts for the lightning mapper instrument and the spacecraft bus for NOAA’s GeoXO weather satellites.
The first GeoXO launch is planned for the early 2030s and the GeoXO program will maintain and advance NOAA’s geostationary observations through 2055.
Lockheed Martin built the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the Solar Ultraviolet Imager instruments on NOAA’s current GOES weather satellites.
NASA will manage the development of the GeoXO satellites and will launch them for NOAA, and NOAA will operate the satellites and deliver data to users worldwide.
NOAA and NASA will work with commercial partners to design and build the GeoXO spacecraft and instruments.
NOAA’s GeoXO program is the agency’s next-generation constellation of geostationary weather satellites to address operational environmental prediction requirements and support U.S. weather, ocean, and climate operations.
Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on instruments to support NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program.
Overall, three 20-month studies have been awarded to Ball Aerospace for NOAA’s GeoXO program.
Ball Aerospace was selected in October 2021 for NOAA’s GeoXO Phase A Sounder (GXS) study.
Spire Global has provided data to NOAA since 2016.
Hydrosat was awarded a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Tier 1 license for its thermal imaging system.
NOAA's Tier 2 classification applies to remote sensing systems offering data matched only by other U.S. systems and Tier 3 applies to systems seeking completely novel capabilities, and both Tier 2 and Tier 3 are subject to stricter regulatory constraints that make commercial or international sales more difficult.