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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Spire Global’s awarded $1,700,000 contract represents continued ability to provide commercial data for NOAA’s weather forecast models.
Earlier in the same year, NOAA awarded Spire Global an $8,000,000 contract to increase the number of radio occultation profiles provided from 3,000 to 5,500 for use in operational weather forecasts.
Lockheed Martin was selected by NASA to further refine concepts for a lightning mapper instrument and the spacecraft bus for NOAA’s GeoXO weather satellites.
NOAA seeks improved imagery from the GeoXO constellation compared with the GOES-R Series.
NASA will manage development of the GeoXO satellites and will launch them for NOAA, and NOAA will operate the satellites and deliver data to users worldwide.
NOAA plans to begin operating three GeoXO satellites in the early 2030s with one satellite over the Eastern United States, one over the Western United States, and a third satellite over the central United States.
The results of the GeoXO Spacecraft Phase A Study will help NASA and NOAA establish requirements for GeoXO spacecraft development contracts scheduled to be awarded in 2024.
GeoXO is NOAA’s next-generation geostationary weather satellite program supported by NASA.
Lockheed Martin won a $5,000,000 contract to help define NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft Phase A Study.
Lockheed Martin will apply predictive analytics to help interpret GeoXO lightning data and build on software used to interpret data from NOAA’s GOES-R series.
NASA awarded the GeoXO Spacecraft Phase A Study contracts on behalf of NOAA on 2022-07-26.
Maxar Space won a $5,000,000 contract to help define NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft Phase A Study.
NOAA funds, operates, and manages the GeoXO mission.
The first GeoXO launch is planned for the early 2030s and the program is intended to maintain and advance NOAA’s geostationary observations through 2055.
NOAA expanded its monitoring with Planet and currently observes a region of approximately 35,000 square kilometers in the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2018 NOAA engaged Planet to obtain near-daily imagery to provide a perspective of change around the leaking oil platform.
Upon completion and evaluation, successful CWDP studies may lead to sustained commercial data purchases by NOAA’s Commercial Data Program to support NOAA’s operational forecasting endeavors.
A September 2021 contract for the Falcon Heavy launch of the GOES-U weather satellite in 2024 is worth $152,500,000.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire Global to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of commercial observations.
Under the NOAA contracts, GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire will provide radio occultation datasets that reveal weather conditions in Earth’s ionosphere.